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Flag desecration really, really, gets under people's skin. That's why it matters.

"Michael thought about it a good long while before he made his statement.

"As a former Boy Scout and U.S. Army soldier, he knew flying an upside-down flag from the front of his condominium might draw some heat.

"'Look, I know the flag code — and I know my rights,' Michael, 30, said yesterday.

"Michael asked that the newspaper withhold his last name and the unit number of his condo after seeing the sometimes angry responses that a story in yesterday's Times Herald-Record paper inspired. 'If I don't use those rights, then what's the point?'"

Times Herald-Record, Orange County, NY, June 15, 2007