Richfield Follows Leads in Burning of Flags

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Richfield police are looking at a "person of interest" in connection with the torching of 46 American flags honoring soldiers returning from duty in Iraq.

About 3 a.m. June 23, police said, a person set fire to the flags set up outside the Sevier Valley Center on Richfield's Snow College South campus. The flags were among some 700 placed there to honor members of the Utah National Guard's 222nd Field Artillery Unit. Members of the "Triple Deuce" from central and southern Utah have been serving in Iraq for more than a year.

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Richfield Follows Leads in Burning of Flags

Boy Scout troops from all over Sevier County participated in gathering the American flags. They set them up outs...

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