Rather than stand around waiting for somebody to pass a law or amend the Constitution, Monday simply snatched the flag from the desecrators. Rick Monday proved you don't need the government or a law to do the right thing. In Los Angeles, people supporting illegal immigration burned the U.S. flag in front of a veterans cemetery. Return to Summary . In 1976 an American patriot stopped a flag burning without being told what to do.
Patriotism seems to make many members of the U.S. news media nervous.
Some people consider it stylish and cool to ridicule patriotism and patriots. Jeff Jacoby's employer, the Boston Globe suspended Jeff Jacoby for telling readers about the American patriots that risked everything in the American Revolution. A National Park Service Ranger made them stop. The national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars demanded an apology. The Park Service reprimanded the new employee for his enforcement of a federal law requiring a permit for what the students did.