[Brytani]

What Zell said was it is the soldier who gives the right to protest and the right to ABUSE that protest by burning the flag.

He in no way indicated or said he supported burning the flag.

[risk]

Of course he didn't support burning the flag. This is the poem he quoted:

“It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.

It is the soldier,
Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.”

Attributed to Father Dennis Edward O'Brien