Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weary patriot may begin to wonder whether a flag-burning amendment is worth the trouble. After all, thousands of flags fly unmolested every day, even without the protection of law. But on this point we have the testimony of the amendment's chief advocate, American Legion Commander William Detweiler: "If burning the flag is wrong, it is wrong no matter how many times it occurs. In fact, we contend it is a problem even if no one ever burns another flag...
Days after the birth, Koernke joined the 70th Division (training), U.S. Army Reserve based in Livonia, Michigan. Later, as he climbed the ladder of the Patriot right, he traded heavily on his purported military-intelligence experience, calling himself an "intelligence analyst and counterintelligence coordinator" with a top-secret clearance, and afterward the commander of two "special-warfare" brigades used to "train U.S. military in foreign warfare and tactics." However, judging from a summary of his service record provided by the Army and anecdotes from soldiers familiar with him, his claims seem inflated. He did attend the Army's intelligence school...
...people listened. Joyce Moore, an enthusiastic Michigan Patriot, was impressed by his encyclopaedic knowledge of obscure, but troubling legislation. "People asked me where I got my information from, and I told them I got it from Mark and checked it out myself, and they should do the same," she says...
James ("Bo") Gritz, ex-Special Forces commander and Vietnam War hero, is well known in the Patriot movement. But its extremist credo leaves him cold. Though mad at Washington, he helped win the 1992 surrender of separatist Randy Weaver. TIME San Francisco bureau chief David S. Jackson talked to Gritz in Bakersfield, California. Excerpts...
TIME: What is the difference between you and Patriot figures like Mark Koernke and Linda Thompson...