so, you're not the only asshole in CT.




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From the Hartford Courant:

EAST WINDSOR -- Today, on Flag Day, Teresa Richard will
fly Old Glory
in the front of her home without fear, following a long,
contentious
and ultimately successful battle with her condo
association.

Richard, the mother of a soldier, made national headlines
in February
after her condo association ordered her to take down her
U.S. flag.
She eventually won the right to keep it flying as long as
she wants
and today - the 230th anniversary of Congress' adopting
the U.S. flag
- Richard will stand triumphantly beside it.

"It's the first time I've had my flag flying on Flag Day
without
feeling like I'm being threatened," said Richard, whose
son until
recently has been fighting in Afghanistan as a member of
the
Connecticut National Guard. "Nobody's going to threaten
me. Nobody's
going to order me to take it down. It is never coming
down."

It will be particularly poignant for her because her son,
Cpl. Tony
Donihee, was injured in March while jumping out of a
Humvee in
Afghanistan.

He was allowed to spend the last four days in East Windsor
with his
mother and father, and will leave for Fort Bragg, N.C.,
today for
months of physical therapy on his left leg.

"They say he won't be up and walking for six to 10
months," Richard
said.

The board of directors of Richard's condo association has
now adopted
a new provision that allows all residents to raise flags
on poles. An
association rule had banned that.

The new provision allows residents to raise the U.S. and
military
flags.

Kevin Carson, president of the board of directors, said
the board
decided that the flags would not "take away from the
property or
property value."

In February, as Richard faced mounting fines from her
condo
association, she peered through her kitchen window at the
flag every
morning, to remind herself of why she was fighting to keep
it. That
flag, now waving atop a Blue Star flag hung by mothers of
soldiers, is
her only connection to her son while he's gone, she said.

When she looks at the flag, she said she feels grateful
that, though
he was injured, he is still alive.

A miniature angel sits atop a globe at the base of the
flagpole. The
angel, Richard said, will protect her son and the rest of
the soldiers
fighting abroad.

"It is my own personal belief," she said, "that this
angel, this small
angel, is watching over them."