Navy veteran could be evicted for hanging flag

UPDATE

Nov 04, 2011
Oregon veteran allowed to display his flag

By Michael Winter, USA TODAY

Navy veteran Edward Zivica can display his American flag on Veterans Day and other holidays and not be evicted from his senior housing complex in Springfield, Ore., the apartment management now says.
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Navy veteran could be evicted for hanging flag
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Nov 3, 2011 15:25:44 EDT
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — Edward Zivica, a 70-year-old who served in the Navy in the 1960s, faces a hard choice come Veterans Day next week: He can obey the rules and remain in his apartment complex, or he can follow his tradition of hanging the American flag outside his place.

The managers at his subsidized housing project here have given him notice he'll be evicted if he again violates the rules against putting anything on the exterior walls.

That notice came after the flag went up Oct. 27 for Navy Day, one of several that Zivica marks by hanging it outside the community room near the main entrance. He'd gotten a letter from the management in June telling him to quit.
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