NO SAFE SPACES FOR ANTI-AMERICANISM: Veterans protest flag removal at Hampshire College. There’s no reason for outsiders not to take their protests to college campuses. And it makes a nice lesson in free speech, and diversity of ideas, for students:

At least one thousand veterans gathered in Amherst this afternoon to protest the removal of the American flag at Hampshire College. 22news spoke to protesters about why they strongly disagreed with the college’s decision.

Freedom is not free. That’s the lesson that hundreds of veterans, their families and friends and other local residents hoped to teach students at Hampshire College Sunday afternoon.

Jerry Maguire, Veteran said, “They took down my flag, they have a right to that, I’m here to defend their right to do that but I want them to understand how bad that hurts me.” . . .

People came from all over New England to attend this protest. The news of the flag being taken down upset Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno who stood in solidarity with veterans Sunday.

This seems like a salutary teachable moment.