This is outrageous. Upset at what they regarded as a celebration of imperialism, students at Middlebury College in Vermont on Wednesday removed nearly 3,000 flags placed by other students in a temporary memorial to the victims of 9/11.
Two of the perpetrators have spoken out about their vandalism. I won’t quote the crazy one. But the more sane one had this to say about her handiwork:
As a settler on stolen land, I do not have the luxury of grieving without an eye to power. Three thousand flags is a lot, but the campus is not big enough to hold a marker for every life sacrificed in the history of American conquest and colonialism.
I don’t suppose we should be surprised. When you fill young minds with leftist ideas and warped history, this is what you get. Garbage in, garbage out.

Teaching as a Subversive Activity
They’re winning. But not without a fight. Even in the midst of this most juvenile manifestation of anti-American leftism, there is the silver lining: the flags and the 9/11 memorial were erected by other young people, through a project sponsored by Young America’s Foundation. All hope for the future generations is not yet lost.
Keep up the good fight, YAF!