{"id":57412,"date":"2014-12-31T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T14:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57412"},"modified":"2014-12-31T09:05:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T14:05:03","slug":"guardmen-rescue-flag-from-ferguson-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57412","title":{"rendered":"Guardmen rescue flag from Ferguson protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stars & Stripes<\/a> recounts the story from two weeks ago when Missouri National Guardsmen Major Lance Dell and Sergeant First Class Eric Allison rescued a burning American flag from protesters in Ferguson;<\/p>\n

\u201cThey treated the flag like it was trash,\u201d Allison said. \u201cIt\u2019s not trash to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dell, 46, and Allison, 43, are full-time National Guard members, assigned to the 205th Military Police Battalion in Poplar Bluff.<\/p>\n

Both men spent 13 months in Afghanistan around 2010, and Allison also spent 18 months in Iraq in 2004-05. They\u2019ve served together long enough that they knew their thoughts were aligned when the flag was burned. They looked at each other and acted.<\/p>\n

Said Allison, \u201cMy dad used to tell me that you can\u2019t even count the people who gave their lives so we can fly that flag. We love the flag, or at least what it stands for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dell noted that he and his men are well aware of the court rulings concerning flag burning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that it\u2019s a constitutional right to burn the flag,\u201d Dell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I knew we couldn\u2019t leave it just lying in the road.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article continues that two weeks later the flag is still in the possession of the two Guardsmen and they promise that it will be treated in accordance with the Code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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