flag burning

The flag is a symbol of our nation. I believe that there were other ways to protest the government than burning the symbol of peace and freedom in our nation that was fought for so many times by people who loved the flag and what it symbolized.  I understand that burning the flag was a protest against the war and fighting, but by lighting it on fire is spitting on the graves of those who fought to give people the right to burn the symbol they were dying for.  While the court did find that burning the flag was not an exception to the first amendment and that the right to burn a flag was protected under that amendment, I believe that a clause should be added trying to protect the symbol of the nation from being burned an disagree with the majority opinion of the supreme court.