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Teens given community service for burning flags honoring soldier
Ohio News ^ | Oct 11, 2005

Posted on 10/11/2005 9:31:02 PM PDT by Hadean

FAIRFIELD, Ohio

Two teenage boys charged with burning 20 small American flags set up in honor of a soldier who died from injuries sustained in Iraq have been sentenced to community service.

A Butler County juvenile court judge ordered the two boys, aged 13 and 15, to complete 40 hours of community service at a Veterans of Foreign Wars post.

The boys admitted to taking the flags from the yard and setting them afire under a car belonging to the soldier's sister-in-law. The vehicle was destroyed.

The flags commemorated Army Private First Class Tim Hines of Fairfield, who died in a Washington hospital July 14 of injuries suffered in June when a bomb was detonated while he was in a convoy traveling in Baghdad.

The fire was set early in the morning after his funeral.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: alf; burn; butlercounty; carburning; elf; fairfieldoh; flag; flagburning; funeral; heroes; ohio; oldglory; shac; soldier
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1 posted on 10/11/2005 9:31:03 PM PDT by Hadean
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To: Hadean
"have been sentenced to community service."

WTH! What 'Service' can they provide to the Community. Maybe giving anti-war talks at elementary schools?

2 posted on 10/11/2005 9:34:02 PM PDT by drt1
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They should have gotten more Community Service time AND their parents should pay restitution and punitive damages for doing such a sh!tty job rearing them.


3 posted on 10/11/2005 9:34:32 PM PDT by Triggerhippie (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
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To: Hadean

Maybe the mother and father should be doing the service
if they exist!!!!


4 posted on 10/11/2005 9:35:20 PM PDT by ralph rotten
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To: Hadean; All
No keyboard tough guy posturing here, these selfish spoiled brats should have to complete there community service at Walter Reed. The pace at which the loss of decency and respect is happing is astonishing!
5 posted on 10/11/2005 9:35:56 PM PDT by vrwc0915
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To: Triggerhippie

I'm pretty sure the vets they will be serving will have plenty to teach them. Maybe get them up to speed.


6 posted on 10/11/2005 9:37:16 PM PDT by Meef
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To: Hadean; SandRat; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Bastards!


7 posted on 10/11/2005 9:37:18 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Hadean

I would imagine that the VFW will work them pretty hard.


8 posted on 10/11/2005 9:37:33 PM PDT by chudogg (www.chudogg.blogspot.com)
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Future Democratic leaders no doubt.


9 posted on 10/11/2005 9:38:23 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: drt1

That's

>>> at a Veterans of Foreign Wars post <<<


10 posted on 10/11/2005 9:41:42 PM PDT by quietolong
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To: Meef

Those kids (and their parents) need to be beaten like rented mules.


11 posted on 10/11/2005 9:45:28 PM PDT by Triggerhippie (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
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To: quietolong
Some one needs to introduce these "boys" to First Platoon of Lima Company, 3rd Battalion. A link to some of the Men these assclowns seem to feel ok in mocking

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-04-marines-profiles_x.htm

12 posted on 10/11/2005 9:50:37 PM PDT by vrwc0915
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I hope these little shiite's parents had to pay for the car.


13 posted on 10/11/2005 9:54:39 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: vrwc0915
I concur -- in spades. All I can state with assurance at this juncture is that I am really glad I am in my late 70's -- and will hopefully die before I see the integrity of our Republic finally destroyed...probably from within, rather than from without.

These occurrences are so very sad for this person to read.
It just breaks my heart.
14 posted on 10/11/2005 9:57:37 PM PDT by dk/coro
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To: Hadean

Too bad flogging and press gangs are out of style.


15 posted on 10/11/2005 9:59:42 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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As much as I would like to see them beaten and publicly humiliated, I think that making the cowards face wounded veterans that they have no respect for could possibly change the punks life for the better. But most likely they are to far gone
16 posted on 10/11/2005 10:04:27 PM PDT by vrwc0915
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I remember this story. I'm glad they caught the little pukes.
I take it that the punishment for stealing a car is more than if you only destroy one.


17 posted on 10/11/2005 10:10:07 PM PDT by mowowie
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Community service, my hairy purple @$$.

What happened to restitution for the value of the car? How about payment to the owner who either had to rent one or do without until she got another one?

Labor at minimum wage until the car is paid off would be the lowest sentence I would think appropriate.


18 posted on 10/11/2005 10:33:48 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: Hadean

What did these assclowns say was the reason for their vile actions?
Did they claim one?


19 posted on 10/11/2005 10:40:17 PM PDT by sarasmom (What is the legal daily bag limit for RINOs in the USA?)
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To: Hadean
When I was that age, I had the honor of raising and lowering the Flag at my school. I can still remember being scared to death that one of might accidentally trip or lose our grip and let our Flag touch the ground. All of us who were on Flag detail knew this poem by heart:

The Battle of the Flag

By Gary Huddleston

A protest raged on a courthouse lawn, Round a makeshift stage they charged on, Fifteen hundred or more they say, Had come to burn a Flag that day. A boy held up the folded Flag, Cursed it, and called it a dirty rag. An OLD MAN pushed through the angry crowd, With a rusty shotgun shouldered proud. His uniform jacket was old and tight, He had polished each button, shiny and bright. He crossed that stage with a soldier's grace, Until he and the boy stood face to face. "FREEDOM OF SPEECH", the OLD MAN said, Is worth dying for, good men are dead, So you can stand on this courthouse lawn, And talk us down from dusk to dawn, But before any Flag gets burned today, This OLD MAN IS GOING TO HAVE HIS SAY!! My father died on a foreign shore, In a war they said would end all war. But Tommy and I wasn't even full grown, Before we fought in a war of our own. And Tommy died on Iwo Jima's beach, In the shadow of a hill he couldn't quite reach, Where five good men raised this Flag so high, That the WHOLE WORLD COULD SEE IT FLY. I got this bum leg that I still drag, Fighting for this same old Flag. Now there's but one shot in this old gun, So now it's time to decide which one, Which one of you will follow our lead, To stand and die for what you believe? For as sure as there is a rising sun, You'll burn in Hell 'fore this Flag burns, son. Now this riot never came to pass. The crowd got quiet and that can of gas, Got set aside as they walked away, To talk about what they had heard this day. And the boy who had called it a "dirty rag", Handed the OLD SOLDIER the folded Flag. So the battle of the Flag this day was won By a tired OLD SOLDIER with a rusty gun, Who for one last time, had to show to some, THIS FLAG MAY FADE, YET THESE COLORS DON'T RUN.

20 posted on 10/11/2005 10:55:12 PM PDT by txroadkill (How 'bout those Cowboys!)
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