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...Symbolism. Reagan was a master at this, and Bush has proved a very quick study. When the Supreme Court last July ruled that the burning of the U.S. flag qualified as protected free speech under the First Amendment, Bush and his advisers organized a media event before the Iwo Jima memorial in Washington so the President could call for a constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration. Congress shied away from an amendment, but last week it passed a simple criminal law that would impose a jail term of up to one year on anyone who burned the flag. The White...
...know, of course, how this great story finally ended. That is told in a series of place names that have become part of the language: Bataan, Midway, Guadalcanal, Stalingrad, El Alamein, Anzio, Omaha Beach, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Hiroshima. In retrospect, it all seems to have a kind of inevitability, and yet there lingers over each battlefield a faint question. What if rains in Poland had mired the German tanks in mud? What if the French army had then attacked? What...
...symbols, Bush had used the Iwo Jima memorial to the Marines when he endorsed the constitutional amendment...
...viscerally" against the court's decision, the President called for a constitutional amendment to carve an unprecedented exception in the Bill of Rights and allow states to make flag burning a crime. Bush delivered his announcement while standing with Republican congressional leaders in front of the Iwo Jima memorial at a hurriedly arranged photo opportunity near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. "The flag is too sacred to be abused," he said. "If it is not defended, it is defamed...
Burn an American flag? The patriotic mind recoils. Reverence for the flag is ingrained in every schoolchild who has quailed at the thought of letting it touch the ground, in every citizen moved by pictures of it being raised at Iwo Jima or planted on the moon, in every veteran who has ever heard taps played at the end of a Memorial Day parade, in every gold-star mother who treasures a neatly folded emblem of her family's supreme sacrifice...