MORE BAD PRESS for the antiwar movement:

“I can’t believe there are that kind of people in the United States,” said Gerv Hansen, retired Sebastopol postmaster and a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3919.

“It makes me mad,” said Rachel Schneider, who brought her two children to a Veterans Day ceremony sponsored by the VFW post and spontaneously became the hit speaker.

They were reacting to Monday’s discovery of an apparent Iraq war protest by vandals who poured concrete into almost 200 holes that are used to hold flag poles on Veterans Day. The city spent more than $1,000 drilling out the concrete so Boy Scouts could erect flags along city sidewalks Tuesday morning.

Perhaps A.N.S.W.E.R. will take up a collection to reimburse the city. Still, there were voices of sanity:

As for the vandalism, Sebastopol police said Tuesday they had no new information. It was condemned by an anti-war group, Women in Black, which holds weekly silent-vigil protests in the county, and drew reaction throughout the day.

Maybe they’ll condemn Ted Rall, next. . . . (Via Best of the Web).

UPDATE: Canada, too:

OTTAWA (CP) — Vandals spray-painted anti-war slogans on the National War Memorial on Tuesday, just hours before Remembrance Day ceremonies were to begin.

Sigh.

ANOTHER UPDATE: In Australia, too:

At today’s service at the Shrine of Remembrance, a bunch of “anti-war protestors” interrupted the service just before the minute of silence with their by now wearisomely familiar shrieks and slogans. According to the afternoon free newspaper here in Melbourne, MX, a war veteran was knocked to the ground in a scuffle with the protestors, two of whom were arrested.

How lame.