Purported Pentagon (9-11) flag burned to end controversy

[RamboLiberal]

An American flag that purportedly flew over the Pentagon on September 11 was burned by a man who said he wanted to end questions of authenticity over the banner he bought for $25,000.

John A. Andrews II, a general contractor and developer, successfully bid for the flag on eBay and planned to fly it over the new Newton-Lee Elementary School in Ashburn, named for two passengers on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon.

But amid continuing questions, Andrews burned the nylon flag Wednesday.

"Since the purchase of this flag, the controversy over its legitimacy has continued," said Andrews, Loudoun's school board chairman. "For the victims' families and the community as a whole, it's a small price to pay to put the issue to rest."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/25/flag.burned.ap/index.html

[louis-t]

1. Something's fishy

Burned the flag to avoid embarrassment when it is found out he got took?

[calimary]

2. Hey! Don't they know? Flag-burning is one of those things the

republi-CON "patriots" want criminalized.

[meganmonkey]

3. There are about 12 weird things about this story

just in those four paragraphs.

:wtf:

[Up2Late]

4. Yeah, that will fix everything.

Oh Brother.:eyes:

[NYC]

5. Was this flag stolen?

Nicholson, who had owned an auction house in rural Orange, said he got the flag in 2002 from a friend who worked construction and said the flag was flying atop one of his company's cranes at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

An initial eBay auction drew a successful bid of $371,300, but the bidder would not honor the sale because of questions about its authenticity raised by Facchina Construction Co., which denied having a flag flying from a crane during the attack.