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Gorean Roleplay => Tuchuk Wagon Camp => MTC OOC => Topic started by: RAGNAR on May 29, 2007, 01:19:41 AM
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Flags Replaced With Swastikas in Wash.
From Associated Press
May 28, 2007 11:37 PM EDT
ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. - Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans' graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday.
Forty-six flag standards were found empty and another 33 flags were in charred tatters Sunday in the cemetery, authorities said. Swastikas drawn on paper appeared where 14 of the flags had been.
Members of the American Legion on this island off Washington's northwest coast replaced the burned flags with new ones Sunday afternoon.
The vandals struck again on Memorial Day after a guard left at dawn, the San Juan County sheriff's office said. This time, the vandals left 33 of the hand-drawn swastikas.
"This is not an act of free speech. This is a crime," Sheriff Bill Cumming said in a statement released Monday afternoon.
Investigators believe there's more than one culprit, based on the number of flags that were vandalized, Cumming said in a telephone interview. But authorities have no suspects, he said.
The sheriff said deputies were trying to lift fingerprints off what little physical evidence they were able to recover.
I say if the guilty party(s) are found, their citizenship should be taken away, all personal property is forfeited as restitution and penalties. Tattoo their arm for identification purposes and set them to forced labor on rations inadequate to support life. When no longer able to labor, gas the fuckers and incinerate them and scatter the ashes leaving no record of their final resting place nor memorial to their passing. As they make their way into the showers for gassing, they would be asked if they still find the swastika more highly prized for what it has come to be associated with than Old Glory and respecting those who had served and should be honorably remembered.
They think it's so damn cute... let them experience it.
My Uncle, and several other WWII Vets I had known who saw action in Europe, saw the swastika flying and worn on the arms of some they faced in combat, liberated the camps, or were prisoners who faced atrocities at the hands of those wearing the armbands.... these men and others like them..... to have the symbol of what they fought against and and endured unimaginable horrors placed over their graves on Memorial Day feels to be the epitome of disrespect, defilement, and desecration.
Even a drawn out painful lingering death seems too easy for the likes of such filth who would commit such an act.
I don't feel it was done by any neo-nazis, white supremest organisation, etc... but rather very uncommon trash with no sense of morality, patriotism, or even respect for themselves. I find myself wondering... did they have no ancestors who served this Nation? Do they not even have the slightest clue of what they have done? How can anyone be such an ignorant, idiotic, jerk-off asshat as to perpetrate such an act?
These were the graves of our Veterans where they have earned honored peaceful rest. They all may not have even been WWII Veterans, but our men and women who have served at anytime during their lives.
This was our Nation's Flag. Men and women have died defending it, carrying it, holding the ground over which it flew, suffered wounds and pain, preserving what it stands for... and is still being done with Courage, Honor, and Valor... three qualities these vandalizing abominations will never grasp or come to understand.
If they are not brought to justice in this life, may they be forever damned in the next.
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Agreed! It turned my stomach to read that. If they hate this country and its veterans so much, get the hell out! And they can kindly douse themselves with gasoline and light a match just before they make the plane reservation for Germany!
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reads this.....eyes narrow... blood slowly rises to that boil.......
we took the oath..... we've stood the wall. we've fought the fight even in the dark of night on soil that was not our own in the name of freedom. we've stood up and fought for those that could not fight for themselves. and truth be told... we will do it again when called to duty.
this is a disgrace. it is beyond shame. it is beyond dishonor.
(( has to stop this post because I am literally sick now))
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*bows and shakes my head* i can't believe people would think of something like that, my family is filled with veterans, from my Grandfather who served as a navigator in the Army Air Corps (now the Air Force) during WWII, to my father who was an MP stateside during Vietnam, to my husband who was on the first set of planes that touched down during Desert Storm, who saw such atrocities that He does not speak of them. He was a combat engineer who was on the ground on the front lines, He was not even old enough to legally drink in this country, but He was old enough to kill or be killed. Not to mention i had a close friend that was in the medical service corps during that same time in Iraq, He told me there were many times He would be working on someone, having to keep His composure at the time, then walking outside to vomit when He was done. A close friend of the family was in the Jungles of Viet Nam and is a Purple Heart Veteran after serving 2 tours. my brother just recently got out of the Navy. And my Master proudly served as well. I think a bunch of veterans need to get together and find those idiots, and quoting "Pulp Fiction", go Medieval on their ass!
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I honestly cannot even think of what to say to that one. There simply are no words strong enough. I am indeed a veteran, as is My father, and both My grandfathers. My Mother's Father was a US Marine on the shores of NOrmandy; my uncle and my father-in-law bother served in Vietnam. Over half the Men I work with are veterans... with that many Veterans in My bloodline and around Me, and having served Myself, I cannot even imagine what would prompt ANYONE to have the unmitigated gall to deface the very graves of Those who gave their lives for our Country. Bring their fuckin asses down South and let em see what a good old-fashioned lynchin feels like. It's FAR too good for em, but it's either that, or throw em to the bears and I wouldn't do that to the bears.
Methinks Ubar probably has the closest thing to a suitable punishment right now, though personally I wouldn't let em live long enough for it to work. Too bad we don;t have sleen on Earth.
.....Arlon
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i agree with everyones commint.. my dad was in the army and retaired.. he was in vaitnam (SP) as my 2nd husband was in the national gaurd.. my brother in law was one of the frist to get sent over to Dessert Storm as an engineer... he is now also retired army... I cant see anyone distrepecting our flag....i sometimes wish there was sleens on earth to take care of problems like this one...the world would be a better place..
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Amen Brother
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I agree with what everyone as already said.
there is alot od military background in m family. boh of my grandfathers was in WWII. my step-mom served in the navy. two of my step-brothers are in the army. one had gotten home from Iraq back in december and from what I was told, as soon as his unit gets their numbers up, they are getting shipped back to Iraq. my other step-brother that is in the army, right now he is stationed over in South Korea and it is also being talked about his unit getting shipped to Iraq. and I have a cousin-in-law who just returned from Iraq at the end of April.
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*shakes her head*.....being a veteran, she is furious
and now the Marine Corps wants to take away a soldier's honorable discharge just because he protests the war in irag....wtf?
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whqat comes arond gos around I always say . My father faught in Nam and i have a brother who is about to go to Iqrac
Elisa Windrider