American flag is symbolic

Editor,

I have to disagree with efforts to ban flag desecration. Thousands of Americans didn't die to protect the flag. They died in the service of America. They died to bring liberty to the peoples of France, Belgium, Netherlands and Korea. They died to stop the British Navy from forcing American sailors into the British Navy.

The American flag, though a beloved symbol, is not the reason we fight wars. It is symbolic. To reduce the freedoms of Americans by changing the U.S. Constitution reduces the value of the flag because it symbolizes an America with just a tad less freedom.

In the U.S. Constitution not one Constitutional Amendment limits the rights of Americans,; to do so now goes against the very spirit of our Constitution. Indeed, if we want to ensure that flag burning/desecration is rare then we cannot make it illegal because it makes it "forbidden fruit."

I was in the military and I love the flag and that is why I don't want the rights it symbolizes diminished.

Jerome McCollom

Polson