American Flag Burned at School - and You Won't Believe How Students React

Todd Starnes.com ^ | September 6, 2016 | Todd Starnes

[Kaslin]

A reader alerted me to this incredible story of patriotism at a high school in Heber City, Utah:

Student Ben Schofield is known around Wasatch High School for his American spirit. He flies an American flag from the back of his red pickup truck.

"I think it's really important," Ben told Fox 13 in Salt Lake City. "It's not just the material part of the flag, it's the meaning behind it."

The other day someone set fire to Ben's flag in the school parking lot. Part of his truck was scorched by the blaze.

Some of his classmates saw what happened and rushed over to extinguish the fire.

"They pulled into the parking lot and they saw it on fire so they stopped and got it out and then they went and told the office," Ben told Fox 13 in Salt Lake City.

Police and the school district are investigating - they believe another student may be responsible. The motive is unclear.

The following day - students at Wasatch High School - decided to take a stand. Several dozen young people rallied at a nearby Wal-Mart. They wore red, white and blue and most proudly flew Old Glory.

Samantha Emmanuel, one of the participating students, said she and the others were appalled at the vandalism.

"There are thousands and thousands of soldiers (in) a couple different countries right now fighting for you to come to school and then you just burned (the flag) up like that?" student Samantha Emmanuel told television station KSL.

The young patriots boldly sent a message to those who might deface or desecrate the U.S. flag -- we will not be silenced nor will we be bullied.

And sure enough -- the day after his flag was desecrated, Ben showed up to school with the Star-Spangled Banner proudly waving on a post in the truck bed.

"We're just showing that we can fly our flags and we always will," Ben declared.

President Ronald Reagan once said that "freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."

We owe a debt of gratitude to the moms and dads and educators in Heber City, Utah for raising up a new generation of patriots willing to defend freedom.

[teppe]

....and some people say that Mormons aren’t patriotic!

[doug from upland]

Harry Reid isn’t. Maybe he’s a fake Mormon. Probably.

[bgill]

IF the school could be bothered to look at the parking lot video (and you know they have it), they’d find out who did it.

[Kaslin]

Provided they have a video.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I’m glad there wasn’t parking lot video when I was young.....

[Kaslin]

most likely, not probably

[Regulator]

Heber has seen a massive influx of Mexican legal immigrants and illegal aliens over the last 26 years, basically since all the refugees from Los Angeles started moving to Park City and Heber in the early ‘90s.

Prior to that, Heber was about as whitebread as you can get: a Mormon small town 50 miles from Salt Lake, same people for the last 150 years. Not a word of Spanish heard since the last Conquistador rode through there in the 1500s.

But the new arrivals act like the dirt is theirs: they fly Mexican flags from their houses, refuse to assimilate, and of course attack all white American people any way they can.

So that’s who will most likely turn out to be the flag burning culprits here.

And of course the government from the city up to the feds will shrug and blame the kid driving the truck.

[Kaslin]

I’m glad there wasn’t parking lot video when I was young.....

Uh oh

[AFreeBird]

Back in the day they called them “crypto” - ____________. Mostly for Jews forced to convert, but secretly practicing the faith of their fathers.

So Harry’s a crypto-Mormon, while secretly practicing his satanic Democrat rituals.

[BenLurkin]

Just find which kids in the school are fans of COlin Kapernick, and question them.

[Safetgiver]

So YOU are the SOB that my VW Beetle on top of the Gymn?!!!!!

[Cobra64]

Good for these patriotic kids pushing back. Further, if I had it my way, anyone caught burning our Flag would be shot on the spot as an enemy to the United States.

I'm fed up with this crap.

[Cobra64]

Hell, anyone found waving a Mexican flag should be deported to that third world shit-hole that they came from.

[Elsie]

....and some people say that Mormons aren’t patriotic!

I ain't one of them!

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Though they are quite deceived.

[Elsie]

Though they are quite deceived.

 

 

What's for dinner?

 

D&C 49:18-19  18 And whoso forbiddeth to abstain from meats, that man should not eat the same, is not ordained of God; 19 For, behold, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and that which cometh of the earth, is ordained for the use of man for food and for raiment, and that he might have in abundance.

D&C 89:12-13  12 Yea, flesh also of beasts and of the fowls of the air, I, the Lord, have ordained for the use of man with thanksgiving; nevertheless they are to be used sparingly; 13 And it is pleasing unto me that they should not be used, only in times of winter, or of cold, or famine.

 

 

 

It must be tough; being a Mormon.   Having to face Scripture that state two opposing ideas and somehow managing to believe BOTH of them!  It's no WONDER that Utah leads in Prozac usage!

 

 

 

[Ace's Dad]

They have three versions on using water in Holy Communion. I’ve read them all.

[Elsie]

Heber has seen a massive influx of Mexican legal immigrants and illegal aliens over the last 26 years, basically since all the refugees from Los Angeles started moving to Park City and Heber in the early ‘90s.

So has Preston, ID

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

The arsonist must be a 49ers Kaepernick fan.

[Daffynition]

Rick Monday 1976

Rick's telling the story of the *save*...

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=baseball+flag+burners+interupted+by+rick+monday&&view=detail&mid=9E10FC1BE906DE4607EB9E10FC1BE906DE4607EB&rvsmid=33B66ADEA98751A2C6FE33B66ADEA98751A2C6FE&fsscr=0&FORM=VDQVAP