Shades of Vietnam

Stuff like this makes me sick. Now I hear Jane Fonda wants to tour Iraq. Didn't she learn anything the first time?

New York Daily News
July 27, 2005

Vandals Hit Dead Soldier's Family

By Associated Press

FAIRFIELD, Ohio - Vandals tore American flags out of the yard of a dead soldier's family the day after his funeral, then set a car on fire, authorities said.

Army Pfc. Tim Hines died July 14 of complications of injuries he suffered last month in a roadside bombing in Baghdad. His funeral was Friday.

On Saturday, someone pulled the flags out of the family's yard, stuffed them under a car in the driveway and set the whole thing on fire.

No arrests have been made. Authorities offered a $5,000 reward for tips.

"As we get into this, we feel it was more of a crime of opportunity as opposed to a
planned act," Police Chief Mike Dickey told CNN.

Lt. Ken Colburn, a police spokesman, said authorities hope "that anyone stupid enough to do something like this will be stupid enough to talk about it and someone else will come forward."

Neighbors bought the family hundreds of new flags.