Click here to tell your Members of Congress to oppose the flag desecration amendment:

http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=9969&c=50

This amendment was rightly defeated in past sessions of Congress. We need you to speak out now because the vote margin this year is precariously thin. Congress is on the verge of amending the First Amendment for the first time ever!

Just last week a group of veterans visited Washington, D.C. to talk with their Members of Congress and spoke out against this dangerous proposed amendment. The veterans believe that they fought for the freedoms represented by the flag, and urged Congress not to infringe on those freedoms for the sake of the symbol itself.

Take Action! Urge your Members of Congress to oppose unnecessarily amending the Constitution, a document that has only been amended 17 times in more than 200 years.

Click here for more information and to contact your Members of Congress on this important issue:

http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=9969&c=50

2) Veterans Defending the Bill of Rights

As in previous years, veterans will play a pivotal role in defeating this amendment. During earlier flag amendment battles, thousands of

veterans wrote their Members of Congress to dispel the myth that veterans speak with one voice about the proposed amendment.

Gary May, a highly decorated former Marine who lost both of his legs during combat in Vietnam, spoke for many of his fellow veterans in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee:

"Freedom is what makes the United States of America strong and great -- it is what has kept our democracy strong for more than 200 years," said May, who serves as the Chairman of Veterans Defending the Bill of Rights, a coalition of veterans who oppose the proposed flag amendment. "The pride and honor veterans like me feel is not in the flag itself, but in the principles the flag stands for and in the people who have defended them."

You can find out more about the Veterans Defending the Bill of Rights

at http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=12009&c=50

or join them directly at

https://forms.aclu.org/feedback/feedback.cfm?r=7&ia=1&ii=0

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