The little darlings need a couple of weeks of this.
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.
The little darlings need a couple of weeks of this.
Community service? What a joke. They needed to be publicly spanked and then given community service helping in a hospital or nursing home. Or better yet, a veterans home.
Thanks.
From a guy who gets a tear in his eye everytime he gets to the "... banner yet wave, or' the land of the free, and the home of the brave?"
I would like to see them cleaning bedpans in a military hospital for at least six months. Follow that up with two years in a military school and they just might get a handle on realty.
I'm more for whippin' 'em like a red-headed stepchild.
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