BRIDGEPORT — When United States Navy Reserve veteran Bob Holm saw the photograph in Tuesday’s paper, he felt disgust. It wasn’t so much the image of dead fish washed up on the Bridgeport shoreline that bothered Holm, it was what lay on the sand nearby, and within the photo — an American flag. “What was the significance of taking a picture with the American flag laying with all these dead fish?” he said Tuesday afternoon. Holm, a 74-year-old Stratford resident, said the Connecticut Post photo was shown to him by two co-workers who are also military veterans, at the Stratford factory where they all work. All three were miffed, he said. “If I saw a flag on the ground, I would pick it up.
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