Posted on 10/03/2007 3:00:52 PM PDT by kellynla
After hearing a Reno bar was flying a Mexican flag above a U.S. flag, an angered U.S. Army veteran took matters into his own hands, drove to the site and cut down the banners in front of a stunned group of Hispanic patrons.
Reno television station KRNV, which was there to document Jim Broussard's act of defiance, noted the U.S. code prohibits raising the flag of any other nations above Old Glory.
Broussard pulled up in his truck to the Cantina El Jaripeo near downtown Reno yesterday, cut the rope that anchored the flags and pulled them down from a makeshift flagpole.
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He left the Mexican flag on the ground and, with the U.S. flag in hand, turned to the KRNV cameraman:
U.S. military vet, with U.S. flag in hand, displays knife he used to cut it down
"I'm Jim Broussard," he said, "and I took this flag down in honor of my country with … a knife from the United States Army. I'm a veteran, I'm not going to see this done to my country. If they want to fight us, then they need to be men, and they need to come and fight us. But I want somebody to fight me for this flag. They're not going to get it back."
The KRNV footage shows a Hispanic man, possibly the bar owner, picking up the Mexican flag after Broussard briskly walks past him down the street to his truck.
Later, Broussard, told nationally syndicated talk-radio host Mike Gallagher he took action after hearing on a local talk station that the flags had been flying all day.
U.S. military veteran cuts American flag from rope after it was flown below a Mexican flag
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God bless Jim Broussard and the United States of America!!!
Gives you goose bumps.I was thinking the other day that Santa Anna would probably be slapping his head at the modern day brillance of his country. A war with no battle fields.
Thank you....may we ALL heed his words and follow his example!!!
Accordingly: CWII Ping!
As a US Citizen I will help also...God Bless that Vet..Lets Roll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would like to buy Jim Broussard a beer. No, buy him many beers.
Good to see real men still roaming the Earth. Especially in the USA.
Anyone heard yet how it went for Peter Lynch today?
He used a Marine Kabar.
Thanks for the link.
Broussard has more BALLS than anyone in Congress or the WH!
This lends new meaning to the phrase, “If you cherish your freedom, thank a Vet”. Our current laws paralyze those who try to enforce it because nobody really knows what the law says anymore. The law, now, depends on what a judge says it says. However, this is still America and brave men will always defend it. Hats of to another vet. God Bless him.
Mercy. That puts a chill down the spine...lots of truth in so few words.
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Thanks for the ping, Fawnn!
PING!!!
A real Patriot!!
This is so funny. My son and I were just talkin about this very subject.
My 6’2” 225 lbs son is hoppin mad over a used car dealership flyin mes-can flags alongside the U.S. flag.
Kinda rubs me the wrong way as well.
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