WAAYTV.com – Huntsville, Alabama – via PEN

An American flag, lit on fire and burned in broad daylight. 

Now investigators are looking for who did it and residents are left stunned. It happened in Hillsboro at the post office last Wednesday.

“I think it’s pretty bad that someone would stoop to that level,” said a local Hillsboro resident Kevin Coffrey. Coffrey lives near the post office in Hillsboro where the American flag once flew.

Wednesday morning, shortly after the post office opened, a customer alerted the clerk who was on duty that the flag had been burned. Only a small piece remains of the flag and the pole is left with burn marks. Read more