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.

Investigators believe there's more than one culprit, based on the number of flags that were vandalized, Cumming said in a telephone interview. But authorities have no suspects, he said.

The sheriff said deputies were trying to lift fingerprints off what little physical evidence they were able to recover.

I am not quite prepared to demonize the anti war movement.  Since no one has taken responsibility, this is as easily the act of stupid disrespectful kids.

But it does point to the complete lack of common decency and respect that just a generation ago would have been completely unheard of.

Let me make it easy. 

This is respect (source ST):

This is not:

Any questions?

Maybe such outrages always have happened, as stupid people have always existed.  Maybe I am too sensitive as this was Memorial Day and I am a very strong proponent of the military.

Maybe.

Maybe I just know stupidity and ignorance when I see it.  I hope to hell that I see some outrage from the left.