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   Nazis captured Jim Rogers. He was routinely beaten and given barely enough food to survive. During the time he spent in a World War II prisoner of war camp, he managed to keep his sanity by scraping together bits and pieces of colored cloth in order to make an American flag. As his fellow prisoners began to die, it was his American flag which provided him with a sense of identity and gave him the inspiration to keep living.

 

It is no wonder, then, that Jim becomes disturbed when he turns on the news and sees our flag being burned in the streets of foreign nations. What disturbs him even more is when he sees the American flag being burned by Americans in America. In 1989, the Supreme Court overturned, in a 5-4 decision, a guilty verdict against a Texas flag-burner, claiming that burning the American flag is a form of free speech which is constitutionally protected. Yet the fact that flag-burning is legal does not ease Jim's angst, and apparently his feelings are shared by many of his fellow Americans. The majority of Americans are ... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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