Beau of The Fifth Column

Copenhagen's mayor for environmental affairs, and if I don't have that title right, I apologize.

There's not a lot of English coverage on this yet, said, quote,

The flags marked in a very nice and quiet manner the tremendous effort that the Danish soldiers deployed there made over several years.

She went on to call their removal disrespectful.

That seems like an understatement.

I would imagine most Americans were picturing little red, white, and blue flags being removed.

It's upsetting.

Now imagine if one of our allies requested our help.

We provided it.

Then their president said we didn't really fight.

Then didn't apologize.

Then they removed little flags with the names of the fallen from outside their embassy.

And all of that occurred after they implied they would seize territory from us, one way or another.

Americans get incensed when citizens in opposition countries burn a U.S.

flag.

They get mad when U.S.

citizens do it.

Now imagine an allied government removing flags with names of our soldiers who were lost fighting their war.

An embassy spokesperson said there was no malicious intent behind removing the memorials.

Look, I find it incredibly hard to believe that the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group didn't know and didn't inform those who made the decision to remove them.