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Student Protesters Rip 2,977 American Flags Out of Ground at 9/11 Memorial
Breitbart ^ | 9/13/13

Posted on 09/13/2013 1:08:22 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

More than 200 colleges and high schools across the nation participated in Young America's Foundation's 9/11: Never Forget Project. Students came together to establish an American flag memorial on campus consisting of 2,977 flags representing each person murdered in the terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, five student protesters at Middlebury College ripped the flags out of the ground before 3:00 pm. The 9/11: Never Forget Project has been an annual nonpartisan event at Middlebury College for the past ten years. By participating in the 9/11: Never Forget Project, students honor the victims of the attacks, as well as honor the American principles for which they died.

Middlebury student groups spent nearly two hours setting up the flag display yesterday morning. The protesters told Ben Kinney, president of the conservative club on campus, they were "confiscating" the flags in protest of "America's imperialism."

The protesters refused to compromise with the students because the flags were supposedly located on an "Indian burial ground and you can't have anything penetrating the Earth."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Vermont; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; leftistactivism; neverforgetproject; stupidstudents; vermont; waronterror
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To: SoFloFreeper

Good for you!


21 posted on 09/13/2013 2:02:29 PM PDT by kitkat (STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR THE WORLD.)
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To: WayneS

Those who allowed it?

They are comfortable, good looking, athletic, academically brilliant and unaware of the sacrifices of their great grandfathers, some of whom they personally met as toddlers.

They lost family members, neighbors, perhaps even parents in the Twin Tower attack.

They are brainwashed by school culture, and the entertainment media, perhaps a liberal news outlet or so.

They are wealthy, or their fathers are. They are onepercenters, many of them.

The same can be said of their parents who simply reffffuse to discern the moral and spiritual upbringing of their children and keep them away from these anti American holes.

Perhaps one or two are rethinking their actions and those of their classmates. But they are far away from the thinking of Captain Winters and Guarnier, Popeye Wynn and Buck, the Seal Team Six, and The firefighters 343 of whom died, charging toward the trouble after receiving absolution from priests like Fr. George Rutler and Fr. Judge, both of whom ran toward the trouble, whom these kids are far away from in spirit.

Spiritual neglect is the worst form of child abuse, from the thoughts of Fr. Goesslein.

Wake up, parents!


22 posted on 09/13/2013 2:09:25 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Impala64ssa
We need some Rick Mondays...

23 posted on 09/13/2013 2:11:53 PM PDT by drew
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To: Jim Scott
the left has amassed so much money ...either from their professorships, their govt nonservice, etc, that its their sense of entitlement and privilege that they don't mind sending their kids to these schools...they want their kids to feel elite and smug as well...

gated community attitude....I'll pass laws to forbid everyone else from doing what they want, or what they believe, or what they should eat, or where they should go, but damn if you little rabble are going to live next to me...

24 posted on 09/13/2013 2:20:21 PM PDT by cherry
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To: SoFloFreeper
As SOON as those words left his mouth (I knew something like that would come out), I snatched the drumsticks out of his hand and ruined them--telling him that for the moment, I was living the world he envisioned. He was not happy.

You just made my day.

Carry on.

25 posted on 09/13/2013 2:21:44 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Olog-hai

IIRC there is no portion of official life at Middlebury that is not out-and-out communist.


26 posted on 09/13/2013 2:27:15 PM PDT by crusher (Political Correctness: Stalinism Without the Charm)
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To: Impala64ssa

When you see people doing that, they need to form human walls in front of them. If they touch them to push them out of the way, that’s assault.


27 posted on 09/13/2013 2:46:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Jim Scott; Impala64ssa

On another thread I commented on the magnificent display of flags at Pepperdine University on the Pacific Coast Highway, CA, that we see for days (and nights) at this time of the year.

R E M E M B E R
9-11


28 posted on 09/13/2013 2:56:43 PM PDT by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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