American Legion Online: Offensive art exhibit: Care to trample on Old Glory?
Saturday, April 26, 2008
http://www.legion.org
A university student's controversial art exhibit left out one important variable: resistance from a determined Legionnaire. Susan
Crane, a 40-year-old education major at the University of Maine at
Farmington, displayed a series of U.S. Flags last week on the floor of
a student-center hallway. "My purpose was to figure out how people felt about the flag and (I) gave them a choice to walk around it," she said. Enter
Vietnam War veteran Charles Bennett. The American Legion commander of
Maine's District 4 tried to remove the flags from the floor, but
university officials threatened to arrest him. Bennett held his ground
as he stood in front of the flags, discouraging many students from
stepping on them. Even so, some students chose to walk or stand upon
Old Glory.