Abbreviated History: The U.S. Flag and the Law
(2002; 2:30)

Footage originally shot in 1991, at Veterans’ Cemetery in Westwood on Memorial Day weekend. Boy and girl scouts had placed small plastic flags on each and every The history of laws concerning the display and use of the flag shows that, from 1989 to the present, proposed constitutional amendments banning flag “desecration” have almost continually been brought up in Congress. Many voices cautioning against such an amendment come from veterans and social servants who place the value of free speech above any symbol, even the flag.