After condemnation from civic groups, veterans groups, members of congress, labor organizations, the Anti-Defamation League, and others, Wal-Mart has announced it will issue an apology to the voters of Flagstaff, Arizona for an ad the company approved that ran in the local newspaper in which voting for an ordinance that would keep Wal-Mart out of the city is equated with book burning. As Rachel Peterson reports in an Arizona Daily Sun story, the ad included a photo that “appeared to show civilians as well as soldiers tossing books onto a flaming pile. Overlaid on the photo at top was the phrase, “Freedoms worth keeping.” Below the photo was the bold-faced headline: “Should we let government tell us what we can read?” The head of the “Yes” campaign for Proposition 10, Frank Brandt, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, says, “We fought for freedom and democracy, not corporate greed. The No campaign is trivializing these ideals.”