It is high time we start taking care of travesties like this "the old fashioned way," because we clearly cannot rely on college administrators to do so. 

Nothing is sacred to disgraceful social justice warriors, who on Saturday desecrated 2,977 American flags -- each in honor of an individual who lost his or her life on September 11.  

The incident happened at Occidental College after students who planted the American flags in honor of 9/11 victims "found them uprooted and thrown in campus garbage cans," reports the CollegeFix. 

"Every last flag. Some were even snapped in half."

The reason given by at least three students in the report? The flags were "triggering." The Fix provides details about the flag desecration and how campus SJWs circulated fliers about the bombing of "innocent" Iraqis: 

Not only that, dozens of makeshift fliers accompanied the vandalism. Taped to benches and other surfaces, most of the fliers stated “R.I.P.” to 9/11 victims as well as to 1.45 million Iraqis who died “during the U.S. invasion for something they didn’t do.”

Sophomore Alan Bliss, a math and economics major who helped lead the effort to plant the flags, told The College Fix in a telephone interview Sunday that when he and a friend came across the destroyed memorial, three students confronted him and said they found the display “triggering.” He said the students also accused him of white privilege and ignorance. [...]

Later that night Bliss said he learned bandits had uprooted and tossed the flags. When Bliss and his friend arrived at the scene, it was 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning. The three students who told Bliss the display is triggering denied involvement in the vandalism, he said. [...]

A Facebook post from the club offers more details on the long evening: “Later that morning, a few of us stood guard at the memorial. Four Occidental students came up and snapped a few flags right in our faces. When we confronted them, those cowards got away as fast as they possibly could.”

Fortunately, human decency also had an opportunity to shine through that night as the Fix reports that once news of the vandalism spread, many students  -- even those not affiliated with the conservative club that planted the flags in the first place -- came out to re-plant the flags late into the wee hours of the morning.  

The Fix notes that Occidental is known for its far-left proclivities and reminds that President Barack Obama attended the college for two years. 

Thus far there has been no word about punitive action against the vandals -- and given the weak-kneed bent of college administrators, we can't imagine they will do anything of substance, even in this most egregious of circumstances.