Posted on 06/13/2010 10:01:35 PM PDT by blueplum
A group of Vietnam veterans has banded together to replace dozens of American flags along the Ventura Promenade that were stolen or damaged by fire over the weekend....
On Friday, it was discovered that 70 of the 87 flags had been stolen. Then, sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, seven flags were burned in their poles, the heat bending the plastic into charred U shapes.
Monahan said he’s been flooded with e-mails and calls. “People are just outraged,” he said.
The replacement flags likely will be installed using longer, 10-foot poles, and positioned outside the promenade wall to make them harder to reach, said Paul Bramson, owner of the American Veterans Flagpoles & Flag Co., which spearheaded the display project.
The flags were raised to honor those who sacrificed their lives for this country, he said...
(Excerpt) Read more at m.vcstar.com ...
original 6/5/10 story in VCS: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/jun/05/flags-on-ventura-promenade-stolen-burned/?partner=RSS
KEYT Channel 3 story: http://www.keyt.com/news/local/95823284.html
see KEYT story for contact information for Paul Bramson, organizer of the display, to be honored by Ventura City Council on Flag Day, Jun 14th.
[I understand the local VFW is asking for volunteers to pull three-hour watches over the display but I cannot confirm this as it was on talk radio]
Other flagburning, Laguna Niguel: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/orange_county&id=6909738
Bump.
Haters.
I think armed guards with orders to shoot to wound would be nice, but today you can’t even defend yourself.
However, this is arson, a felony. Lock and load.
WOw! This is just down the road from me. I am so angry. I have not seen reports on this either. I wonder who did this.
I'm with you. Lock and load. Armed and ready to shoot.
Don’t they have any security camera video?
obama voters no doubt.
Could all types of vandalism on a Veteran’s memorial be prosecuted as a “hate crimes”.
My flag pole.......backed up by three Rotts and a 12 Gauge Shotgun.
http://www.mredsflags.com/mr-eds-internal-deluxeIH.html
I say armed guards with orders to shoot to kill.
This crap isnt funny. people who do this type of thing do not deserve to live in America.
Has anybody seen Obama’s little youth camp soldiers lately?
Other than the Homeless Vet, nobody...NOBODY saw anything, yet 70 flags were stolen, and 7 were burned.
I call BS on this one, because the three individuals in their “late teens, or early twenties” were more than likely deserving of Leftist PC protection as we often find with the media either due their Leftist perspectives, or as they are so fearful of persecution by La Raza types if they don’t.
Ventura, Agriculture, and Illegals.
That’s my guess.
imo, I think that would be a good law to pass - and enforce.
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