Vandals Desecrate The Graves of Veterans

After spending some time at a Memorial Day remembrance yesterday, it's especially disgusting to read this report from Washington State:

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.

You can be pretty sure that the perpetrators are part of the radical antiwar left, but you have to wonder how someone's thinking could become so perverted that they would consider this type of vandalism as an appropriate expression of their beliefs.