A woman mourns her dead fiance at Arlington National Cemetery 27 May on the outskirts of Washington D.C.

(via Hot Air)

I saw this on news tonight, and Michelle Malkin beat me to it tonight.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_re_us/flag_vandalism

Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans' graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday.

Forty-six flag standards were found empty and another 33 flags were in charred tatters Sunday in the cemetery, authorities said. Swastikas drawn on paper appeared where 14 of the flags had been.

Members of the American Legion on this island off Washington's northwest coast replaced the burned flags with new ones Sunday afternoon.

The vandals struck again on Memorial Day after a guard left at dawn, the San Juan County sheriff's office said. This time, the vandals left 33 of the hand-drawn swastikas.

"This is not an act of free speech. This is a crime," Sheriff Bill Cumming said in a statement released Monday afternoon.

All along I have written and believed that Cindy Sheehan was a useful idiot for the left, a sympathetic morally untouchable figurehead for the anti war anti Bush left.

And Like Watada, their latest useful idiot, as soon as her effectiveness and usefulness is gone, they will turn away.

Cindy finally got that message.  This is her message on Daily Kos.

I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called "Face" of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the more milder rebukes.

Memorial Day 2007, Playin' Possum on Senator McCain calling for an accountable civil service: (I add bold)

McCain… We should have left him in Hanoi…

The idea civil service has no accountability is crap. What they have is a little security - which seems unusual in today's race to the bottom environment… What they deserve is solidarity…

Not that they will get it. The greedy believe that the wolves will get the others, not them. They're wrong. Everyone is going to be sold out to the globalists who would "equalize" us with the Chicoms and Indians for the sake of profits - the profits of the globalist pirates who would enslave the rest…

Not that their calculations will be any more prescient. When the millions of Joe Averages are reduced to an angry mass - they will fall upon  "the winners" and kill them. The "winners" won't be able to win and the mobs won't be able to lose - because the mobs will have nothing to lose…

Former LSU star and New England Patriots player Marquise Hill has been found dead after a ski-jet accident.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-patriots-hillsearch&prov=ap&type=lgns

The Editorial Cartoon in the Tacoma News Tribune today was a fairly simple affair - Black, with a mother and child at a gravesite.  The child clutching a flag, the mother with a tri-fold burial flag in her arm.

The caption was “A prayer for the day when we don’t have new names to mourn…”

All in all, a wonderful piece, highlighting the sacrifice of not only our servicemen, but their families. 

But also thought provoking.

Because, in the final analysis, the only nation that has no new names to mourn, is a nation that has passed from history.

And the people of that nation would be dead, or enslaved, and have many, many more names to mourn.