PAT LAMOUREUX

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Apartment residents told to take down U.S. flags

By Melica Johnson
KATU News and KATU.com Staff

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ALBANY, Ore. - At the Oaks Apartments in Albany, the management can fly their own flag advertising one and two bedroom apartments - but residents have been told they can't fly any flags at all.

Jim Clausen flies the American flag from the back of his motorcycle. He has a son in the military heading back to Iraq, and the flag - he said - is his way of showing support.

"This flag stands for all those people," said Clausen, an Oaks Apartment resident. "It stands for the people that can no longer stand - who died in wars. That's why I fly this flag."

But to Oaks Apartment management, Clausen said, the American flag symbolizes problems.
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Pat Lamoureux - Iraq 2003

Pat Lamoureux - Iraq 2003
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