Was this a “rager for the broletariat,” as one media outlet put it, or a celebration of American patriotism? Perhaps both, but as my friend John Ondrasik tells me in this exclusive* interview, “it was all America.”
The lead singer of Five for Fighting joined John Rich and other performers at Flagstock this week to celebrate the fraternity members who rescued the American flag on the University of North Carolina campus. Pro-Palestinian rioters had returned after being ejected from campus to once again pull down the flag and replace it with a Palestinian banner. Students from at least a half-dozen fraternities rescued the flag and kept it from being taken by the rioters. A groundswell of appreciation from around the country led to a GoFundMe account for a party, as contributions reached over $500,000:
John and I spoke yesterday afternoon about his experience at Flagstock in…
