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Commentary: 'Fox & Friends' gets Texas town's flag 'ban' wrong
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/07/155207/commentary-fox-friends-gets-texas.htmlPosted on Saturday, July 7, 2012
Bud Kennedy | The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Bud Kennedy Fort Worth Star-Telegram
A Fox & Friends Weekend host's words jarred America awake Sunday.
"There is this city council in Texas," host Alisyn Camerota began, "and they're saying no more American flags!"
What?! No flags?! The week of July Fourth?
What kind of lunatic lefty socialist commie pinko town does that? snip
Five days later, the Home of Crazy Water is still explaining that you can't believe everything you see on cable TV news.
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(It's not just FOX) 
The story is pretty funny, actually!
Texas Town Bans Flags on Veterans’ Graves
A Texas town is reconsidering a controversial ordinance that it approved earlier this month that would ban the displaying of flags at gravesites.
The ordinance, approved by the City Council of Mineral Wells, states that flags would be allowed on graves at the town’s Woodland Park Cemetery only one week before and after Memorial Day and Veterans’ Day. July 4 and Labor Day, other popular flag holidays, were not part of the approved time frame.
After citizens expressed outrage, flooding the city council office with calls Monday, the council scheduled a public meeting for July 10 to reconsider the new flag policy.
Veteran Robert Veach, whose father is buried at Woodland Park, was one of the first to speak out against the ordinance, telling the Mineral Wells Index that he believed he should be allowed to put a flag at his father’s grave 365 days a year.
A Texas town is reconsidering a controversial ordinance that it approved earlier this month that would ban the displaying of flags at gravesites.
The ordinance, approved by the City Council of Mineral Wells, states that flags would be allowed on graves at the town’s Woodland Park Cemetery only one week before and after Memorial Day and Veterans’ Day. July 4 and Labor Day, other popular flag holidays, were not part of the approved time frame.
After citizens expressed outrage, flooding the city council office with calls Monday, the council scheduled a public meeting for July 10 to reconsider the new flag policy.
Veteran Robert Veach, whose father is buried at Woodland Park, was one of the first to speak out against the ordinance, telling the Mineral Wells Index that he believed he should be allowed to put a flag at his father’s grave 365 days a year.
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