Jake Redecker had just finished honoring veterans and singing patriotic songs at a Big & Rich concert when he returned to his truck to discover someone had torched his American flag.

“Very surprised. Very. I didn’t think it was true at first, I just couldn’t wrap my head around it,” Redecker tells WQAD.

Redecker had two American flags posted off the back of his truck when he visited the Mississippi Valley Fair over the weekend. One was nothing but ashes and tiny pieces when he returned. The fire also caused damage to his tailgate and bumper.

He posted several photos to Facebook and wrote:

So this is what is left of the American flag I flew from the back of my truck…never would have thought somebody would come to a country music concert and burn our country’s flag! I really thought the quad cities was better than this.

“They were pulling veterans up on stage and singing all those patriotic songs… I just did not expect that at the Mississippi Valley Fair, whatsoever,” Redecker’s girlfriend, Kassandra Melton, tells the news station.

Redecker filed a police report with the Davenport, Iowa police the day after the incident.

“I just can’t even put it into words. It’s just so disrespectful having the American flag being burnt. It’s just ridiculous to me that somebody in this country would actually want to do that,” he says.

Several people have offered to buy him a new flag.

Ulysses Arn notes this is the second such incident in the Quad Cities area lately. He says last month, someone burned an American flag that was flying at half staff in a public park.