Here is a rather funny story from Days of our Trailers. Some drunk decided to be funny and steal a flag from his local VFW and burn it. Here is the thing if you want to fuck with somebody you may want to pick somebody besides veterans of foreign wars. See veterans that have been sent across the ocean to other countries to fulfill their duties often had to find creative ways to entertain themselves. These ideas often involve pranks on other people. So you are dealing with a population of people who probably entertained themselves by finding creative ways to get at other people.
Well the members of the VFW did get back at the flag thief. They found him and, I’m guessing, provided him the option of an ass beating or something less painful but more humiliating. The VFW members duct taped the flag thief to a flag pole at a kids soccer game. I say kudos to the members of the VFW to creativity and victory.
So you are dealing with a population of people who probably entertained themselves by finding creative ways to get at other people.
You are also dealing with a population used to lying motionless in some steaming jungle for hours on end for the opportunity to unleash large amounts of automatic weaponry at their enemies.
The guy must have spent his time duct taped to the flag pole (still more comfortable than a vietnamese prison) in sheer relief that he still had all his bodyparts attached to each other and not hanging as trophies from the belts of some pretty angry ex-soldiers.