He doesn't see himself as a victim!

Arek Trenholm was born with a condition called spina bifida, which impairs the development of the spinal cord.

The 16-year-old has been wheelchair-bound for 10 years now. But at the sight of the red, white and blue, he hoisted himself up to pay homage.

The teen and his family were outside his uncle Myron Leggett’s photography studio in Leesburg, Florida to watch a high school homecoming parade. It was when the junior ROTC marched by with the American flag that he used his arms to rise up out of his wheelchair.

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"Valdosta State University loves flag burners more so than flag wavers."

Michelle Manhart is an Air Force veteran living in Georgia. Protesters at Valdosta State University had been stepping on an American flag, because they are convinced they are victims of big, bad America. Todd Starnes reports at Fox News that

Manhart, whose husband is a 21-year airman deployed overseas, admitted that she took the flag.

“It was tattered and torn, covered with mud and dirt,” she said. “I told the demonstrators that it needed to be properly disposed of.”

Manhart learned about the flag desecration last week. A family acquaintance told her the demonstrators had been trampling on the flag for three days. So Manhart called the university to complain. She said she was told the matter would be investigated.

On April 17th Manhart learned the demonstrators had once again desecrated the flag - so she drove to the campus and eventually took matters into her own hands. She brought along her 19-year-old daughter who filmed the entire incident.

She was detained for several hours and initially the campus police officers threatened to file federal charges. However, she was eventually set free and banished from the public university campus.
Manhart told me she could just not allow those demonstrators to desecrate the nation’s flag.

“I have seen that flag on caskets returning home,” she said. “It was just the thought of those demonstrators standing on someone’s casket. I was so internally frustrated.”

The intellectual elites at Valdosta State University should be ashamed of their behavior. They should be honoring brave patriots like Michelle Manhart. Instead, they hauled this brave woman away in handcuffs and banished her from their campus.

The way I see it - her only crime was behaving exactly the way we would expect a veteran of the Armed Forces to behave.

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