Can we question their patriotism yet?

Time magazine reports on what happened on Veterans Day to one Missouri couple’s display of flags for each of our fallen soldieres in Iraq:

Almost as soon as Ann and Don Bender marked the 4th of July by planting a field of more than 3,500 flags — one for each of the American troops killed in Iraq— the elements began to take a toll. The baking sun and sudden storms of a Great Plains summer left the little flagsticks warped and broken and the fabric bleached and torn.

But that was nothing compared to the damage done in the dark hours of Sunday morning by vandals who kicked down thousands of the flags and left behind a cardboard sign with a single word splattered in red spray paint: “MURDERERS.”

Click below to see the damage:

The story provides an interesting contrast between anti-war factions, and shows the right way to oppose the war, and the wrong way.

Whoever did this better hope that its law enforcement who catches them, rather than a group of veterans.