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  • Gannett Editor Promises to Burn Flag If Burning Amendment Passes

    06/29/2005 5:59:26 AM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 73 replies · 1,449+ views
    MRC ^ | Wednesday June 29, 2005 | BrentBaker
    The top editor at a newspaper owned by Gannett, which publishes USA Today, promised in a Sunday column to burn an American flag if the Senate passes an anti-flag burning amendment. Linda Grist Cunningham, Executive Editor of the Rockford Register Star in Illinois, pledged: "If the U.S. Senate follows its silly siblings in the House of Representatives and votes for a ban on burning the American flag, I'm going to burn one. It never occurred to me to burn a flag -- except in some flag-retiring ceremony -- but just the idea that Congress has nothing better to do than...