When I served on a color guard detail in the Marine Corps we were told that the guard did just that, guard. We were instructed that were anyone to try to do anything to the colors we to royally mess them up. During a parade in 83 I got just that opportunity. Thank goodness there weren’t hordes of morons with video cameras then. I’m certain the two idiots who tried to take the colors are permanently scarred. Both caught butt strokes to the face.
Somehow your appropriate action reassures me, rey. There are things worth standing for.
“...ertain the two idiots who tried to take the colors are permanently scarred....”
Good on ya, Marine. Semper Fi.