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<blockquote data-quote="Little Cow" data-source="post: 1590776" data-attributes="member: 5507"><p>I have a funny story about flag burning. </p><p></p><p>I was in an enlisted to officer program at a Washington DC area university (USN scholarship) and we were required to participate in the hotly contested inauguration of Bush in 2001. Our unit, which was a mix of USN and USMC officer candidates, carried the giant flag down Penn Ave. It was cold, icy, and very windy. We didn't have nearly enough people required to carry it (we had 30 and you're supposed to have 50), so it was trying to act as a sail on us. We exhausted ourselves keeping it off the ground and properly displayed through the entire length of the parade route. Meanwhile, these anarchists idiots kept running up behind the crowd screaming nasty slogans about burning it. Whatever. After all, we promised to support and defend the very Constitution that gave those guys the right to yell whatever they wanted. Then, since they couldn't get a reaction out of us, they started throwing old fruit. On a cold day, it sucks to get a nasty, half frozen orange in the face, let me tell you. We kept our bearing, but we were pi**ed. They would run from alleyway to alleyway and throw over the crowds or squeeze between people on the bleachers set up prior to the parade. I guess by running, they couldn't be apprehended easily. Well, on one of the last alleyways before the grandstand, the bleachers were full of USMC Honor Guards in civvies. When the anarchists did their little fruit bowl prank, those Marines flew off those bleachers and were on those guys like fat rats on a greasy Cheeto. We didn't see those anarchists again. :tiphat:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Little Cow, post: 1590776, member: 5507"] I have a funny story about flag burning. I was in an enlisted to officer program at a Washington DC area university (USN scholarship) and we were required to participate in the hotly contested inauguration of Bush in 2001. Our unit, which was a mix of USN and USMC officer candidates, carried the giant flag down Penn Ave. It was cold, icy, and very windy. We didn't have nearly enough people required to carry it (we had 30 and you're supposed to have 50), so it was trying to act as a sail on us. We exhausted ourselves keeping it off the ground and properly displayed through the entire length of the parade route. Meanwhile, these anarchists idiots kept running up behind the crowd screaming nasty slogans about burning it. Whatever. After all, we promised to support and defend the very Constitution that gave those guys the right to yell whatever they wanted. Then, since they couldn't get a reaction out of us, they started throwing old fruit. On a cold day, it sucks to get a nasty, half frozen orange in the face, let me tell you. We kept our bearing, but we were pi**ed. They would run from alleyway to alleyway and throw over the crowds or squeeze between people on the bleachers set up prior to the parade. I guess by running, they couldn't be apprehended easily. Well, on one of the last alleyways before the grandstand, the bleachers were full of USMC Honor Guards in civvies. When the anarchists did their little fruit bowl prank, those Marines flew off those bleachers and were on those guys like fat rats on a greasy Cheeto. We didn't see those anarchists again. :tiphat: [/QUOTE]
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