--The Boston Herald-
Air Force veteran Richard Spalding, who is the Senior Vice Commander at the Sons of the American Legion Post 440 Newton, Mass., shows a piece of a flag that was vandalized along the St. James Street overpass on November 11, 2018 in Newton, Massachusetts.
Every day is a good day to honor our veterans, but never more so than today as the American flag — a steadfast symbol of freedom our heroes have lost life and limb defending — is under fire.
The latest example of this ongoing outrage occurred over the past week in Newton where a bunch of losers, there’s no other way to describe them, ripped down and stole American flags that were proudly draped on a Mass Pike overpass by local members of the American Legion.
If I were the judge when these vandals were caught and charged, I'd have them cleaning latrines at veterans hospitals for the next year.But this is just the the most recent assault on the honor and dignity of the flag. Read more
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