Former Marine fired for honoring the flag

If you honor the American flag, the chances are that you will have more legal problems than if you burn it.

Allen Thornwell, 29, a former United States Marine took it upon himself to lower the flag to half mast on Memorial Day in honor of the American war dead. He particularly wanted to honor his best friend and former Marine who, he said killed himself when he returned to the U.S. after combat, the Charlotte Observer reported.

Flag protocol says that the flag should be lowered to half-staff that day up until noon, at which time it is to be flown full-staff. 

The paper said that Thornwell was fired Tuesday from his job at Time Warner Cable, who said that they were disturbed by what was termed as "passion for the flag and (his) political affiliation."

How horrible--he must be a black conservative.

Murphy Archibald, Thornwell's attorney and Vietnam veteran himself, said that his client should have never been fired. "It's disgraceful. He didn't do anything wrong. He's a veteran working on Memorial Day who corrected what he thought was a disrespectful flying of the American flag . . . I would have taken it down myself."

It may not have necessarily been "disgraceful," but it certainly was at least very ignorant of Time Warner.

A Time Warner spokesman confirmed Thornwell's firing saying the former Marine "was no longer under contract" with the company, but refused to go into detail.

I suspect the Time Warner spokesman is not a military veteran, doesn't see anything wrong with the Trump riots where the American flag is burned and the Mexican flag is waved proudly.

And I honestly have nothing against Mexico--it's a "patriotic thing" I suffer from--and Time Warner should be ashamed.


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