That was until he put up the sign in his front yard on Pierce Road several weeks ago—a sign that said "John Kerry for President." Since then, the signs have been stolen more than five times. When it hasn't been stolen, it has been vandalized.

Glennon is 87 years old. "I think I am too old to be bothered by it. This is one more of life's experiences," he said. "I will continue putting up the signs. My son Brian has a supply of them."

Brian Glennon is a little more bothered. He lives in San Francisco but is back in Saratoga every weekend.

"I am very disappointed," he said.

During one of his weekend visits, he was in the middle of replacing a stolen John Kerry sign when a young man driving past in a Jeep Wrangler shouted an obscenity at him. The person also made a rude gesture at him before driving away.

"My father fought in World War II. He signed up early. Men like my father fought to protect this young man's rights," said Brian.

Glennon enlisted in the Navy and fought in the South Pacific during World War II. After he retired from the Navy, he served on the Saratoga City Council for 12 years and was mayor of the city for a year in 1968.

"What has happened to the nation that my father fought for? Things have reached a stage where if you do not think in a particular way, you might be considered unpatriotic," said Brian.

William Glennon was a registered Republican until the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. He decided to change sides after President Clinton was threatened with impeachment.

"I applaud the fact that my father is standing up for what he believes in," said Brian.

He said that Saratoga did not have a small-town feel anymore. "Before people knew each other and cared about each other. Now people do not know their neighbors," he said. "It is much easier to be mean to someone if you do not know them."

Signs advertising the Democratic presidential hopeful have been vandalized or destroyed by the hundreds in Pensacola in Northwest Florida.

The Glennons are not about to give up, though. They haven't complained to law-enforcement authorities, but they say they will replace each stolen John Kerry sign with a new one.