Not even 24-hours after Private First Class Tim Hines's wife and family said goodbye at his funeral, American flags that had adorned their Fairfield yard were piled beneath a car and burned.
Hines' sister-in-law woke up to hear her car alarm around 5:30 a.m. and saw her car on fire.
As firefighters brought the fire under control they discovered a pile of around 20 American flags underneath the car.
Neighbors say Hines' wife's family had flags line their front yard and on the porch.
Those were taken as well as flags in neighboring yards.
This comes from a post at Eric's Grumbles Before the Grave. Eric is a veteran of Desert Storm whose own property was trespassed upon by "protesters" while he was away serving our country. They would not leave the property until Eric's wife accepted the brochures they were handing out which showed children that were maimed in the war. The rest of the article about the vandalism to PFC Hines's property is available at WCPO TV.
6 comments:
Horrendous.
That sucks.
It's frustrating to see someone do this to a soldier and their family because they don't really have anything to do with the larger issue. I agree with Kitkat. Protest to your government.
You know something, I am not for the war.
This is the kind of crap that makes me NOT proud to be an American. Who the hell do these people think they are??? That is straight up wrong.
To attack a person's home or property for something they have NO control over, shows a complete lack of character. I hope these people have so much bad karma for the rest of their lives, they go into hiding and fear every human around them.
Okay, I'm done hateing now. ;)
That's terrible.
This behavior is revolting. Ugh. The only thing soldiers make a choice to do is to give up all other freedom of choice to serve the ENTIRE country, and that means taking orders. I am NOT FOR THE WAR, or this administration, but that someone would take that opposition and mete it out to those who have no control over it is misguided, to say the least. I second kitkat - write letters, signs, protest, WRITE THE ADMINISTRATION, vote, speak up, but don't punish those that don't have a choice in the matter. Sometimes I really hate the majority of this country.
It's disgusting. And it's frustrating because this just makes it harder for those of us who are pro-peace moderates to be heard and taken seriously. Every time someone does something like this, they give credence to Bush's assertion that to be against the war is to be anti-American. I'm proud of the American ideals and I'm proud that there are people who are brave enough to volunteer to fight to defend us. I'm very sorry that they've been sent to this sham war.
And it isn't like people in the armed services have much choice. They can go where the government sends them or they can go AWOL and wind up in jail.
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