The Boston Herald, July 12th, 1999
It was a sad sight: Congress desecrating the flag. But that is what the House did recently when it voted to amend the Constitution to deprive Americans of their First Amendment right to protest government wrongdoing by burning the flag. Now I happen to hold the flag in high regard. I always straighten small flags in cemeteries. I insist on folding large flags into triangles, and am always offended to see a flag left up, unilluminated after dark. You might say I am reverential toward Old Glory, but my reverence is not for the flag itself but for the good it represents. Unlike most members of C...
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