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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.
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