{"id":37593,"date":"2013-09-15T09:39:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T13:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37593"},"modified":"2013-09-15T09:39:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T13:39:33","slug":"update-on-middlebury-flag-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37593","title":{"rendered":"Update on Middlebury flag incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, TSO wrote about Anna Shireman-Grabowski<\/a> who tore up nearly 3000 flags which were meant as a 9-11 memorial and put them in a trash bag at Middlebury College in Vermont. She said she was destroying the memorial because (in her own stupid inability to capitalize and punctuate) “i knew in my core that thousands of american flags should not penetrate the earth where my abenaki brothers and sisters sleep.”<\/p>\n

Well, the chief of the Abenaki tribe of Vermont weighs in, by way of the Addison Independent<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe, called the vandalism \u201cdisgusting,\u201d and believes the protesters were acting to promote their own political beliefs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t know anything about this and if we had we certainly wouldn\u2019t have sanctioned it,\u201d Stevens said.<\/p>\n

He said that Abenakis do not publicize the locations of their burial sites in order to protect them, and that he has no knowledge of any such sites on the Middlebury campus. Stevens said that even if the site of the memorial had been a burial site, the American flags placed in the earth would not have been a desecration.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur burial sites honor our warriors and their bravery,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cPutting flags in the earth to honor bravery would not be disrespectful.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the article, Chief Stevens is a veteran, his father served in the Korean War and his son served in Iraq. So the stinking hippies at Middlebury can put that in their pipe and smoke it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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