
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, July 19, 1990                   TAG: 9007190526
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-14   EDITION: METRO 
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NOT JUST FLAGS BUT PEOPLE ARE BURNED

WE OBJECT to burning of the flag because we see it as a symbol of liberty and justice for all - but in truth, the flag has not stood for liberty for 17 years. Then, the Supreme Court ruled that not just flags but people could be burned - if the people in question happen to be living in the womb and saline solution is used as the burning agent.

Although defacing the flag is serious and offensive, its occasional destruction seems trivial when you compare it with 4,000 human lives dismembered and destroyed through abortion each day. Without life there is no liberty and no justice. And without "liberty and justice," the flag means nothing. We should mourn the destruction of a flag that symbolizes liberty, but we should grieve more for the loss of life and liberty itself. STEVE E. HALL ROANOKE

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