Kathyleen Phillips is undeterred: She is going to fly an American flag.

The 79-year-old Maryville, Tennessee resident awoke Wednesday morning to discover someone had approached her home and torched a flag hanging from it.

“I called my mom, she said ‘someone burned daddy’s flag.’ It was my dad’s flag,” Kathyleen’s son, DeWayne Phillips, tells CBS 8.

The younger Phillips took to Facebook to raise awareness, and the American Legion donated a new flag to his mother.

“What really is disturbing is it was the American flag, and it hurts as a veteran,” DeWayne says, according to WBIR. “But it’s also my mother’s house! It could have caught her house on fire.”

“She’s trying to fly the flag that her husband fought for, that her sons fought for,” the Legion’s Charlie Walton says.

She prompted hung the new flag, only to discover the next morning, that, too, was targeted by an arsonist.

“They did it again. I though oh my, no, come on,” Phillips says.

The American Legion is now helping Phillips to install a flag pole in front of her house to prevent it from potentially catching fire, should the vandalism continue.

“We’re obviously looking into it, and our investigation is just actually starting,” Maryville Police Chief Tony Crisp tells the Daily Times.

“We’re not going to stop; we’ll put up flags every day. If they burn them down every day we’ll put up a new flag every day,” he tells WJHL.

Phillips has six more flags in her home ready for flying and other friends have stepped in to help.

In front of her home, she’s now flying 20 flags.