Parente said someone brought the "Don't Tread on Me" flag, also known as the Gadsden flag, to a sunset ceremony on March 21 and the veterans decided to fly it, given the flag's historic military connections.
In the Santorum version it comes out as "freedom, " and it wells up from something more akin to the "Don't tread on me" motto and coiled rattlesnake sewn into the famous yellow Gadsden flag created before the American Revolution.