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<br />~~`~ <br />I <br />i <br />From: American Legion post 6 <br />American Legion Post 85 , <br />American Legion Posrt 452 <br />To: Chairman and Board, Orange County Commissioners <br />Su6j: Desecration of American Flag in Orange County <br />1. Enclosure (1) indicates that an act of desecration of the Flag of the United <br />States of America occurred on the campus of the.Univers%ty~of Nartfi Carolina at - <br />Chapel Hill on Friday, January 26, 1979. <br />2. We represent veterans of WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the 'Vietnam Conflict <br />who are proud of their service in defense of. that Flag and in defense of the <br />America for which that Flag stands. <br />3. We respectfully petition the Orange County Board of Commissioners to prepare <br />and forward to appropriate Federal and State authorities a resolution requesting <br />that those persons cornnitting this act of desecration of onr Flag 6e speedily brought <br />to trial. <br />RE5pECTFULLY SUBMITTED THIS 5th DAY OF FEBRUARY,, 1979: <br />~~ - ~_' lame: ~ ~ ~a~ ~:~•~,~~~,,~C~~.ti t <br />~. - ~? <br />~,,.~.r,T.,,~,~. 71 L <br />...-~ , <br />Enc7 (1) Extract from The Chapel Hill Newspaper, Sunday, January 28, 1979, page 7A. <br />(Wi.th photo of two demonstrators standing behind burning Flag) <br />