Joseph Sincavage says he never intended to offend anyone by displaying a Nazi flag in political protest of President Barack Obama and his policies.
“I never foresaw any of this,” Sincavage said Friday, the first day since Sunday the 74-year-old U.S. Marine veteran decided not to fly the flag bearing the swastika of Nazi Germany.
“It’s gone,” he said.
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Sincavage said the flag caused “bad emotions” with both his Jewish and non-Jewish neighbors. It also created a traffic problem on the side street, he said. And at least one motorist drove by yelling obscenities.
“I never saw the unintended consequences,” Sincavage said.
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A U.S. Marine Corps flag now flies in its place.
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