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I just finished reading Jeffrey H. Anderson?s piece in The Weekly Standard about how the California Department of Transportation has been thwarting the efforts of the Old Town Orcutt Revitalization Association to erect an American flag and build a memorial honoring our troops and yet has no problem giving the green light to projects honoring Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.

Something is very wrong with America when its authorities refuse to honor our heroes and the flag for which they stood while casually bestowing?honor?upon our enemies and their ideology.

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