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proudly wearing his uniform.
He requested the lighter from his fellow

veterans, and they handed it to him. He then turned to
the other group.

“I am going to give you back your lighter and
your flag, but before I do, I want you to understand why
we oppose what you are doing. Many of us have fought
against tyrannical forces that would love to see our flag,
and what it stands for, marred, as you are planning to do
today. We fought in cold and filth and saw dear friends
fall around us. Each time we buried one of these brave
men, we would cover his coffin with the flag you now
want to burn. It stood as a symbol of the ideals he had
died for and the country he loved and would never see
again.

“Some of us helped liberate prisoners whose
emaciated bodies made them look like walking
skeletons, whose only crime was being born into a
certain class of people or standing up against the

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