Heroes like this should always be remember – especially by the
selfish and inconsiderate who take freedom for granted and abuse it daily –
especially those in the liberal media, government, and associations seeking to
destroy our freedoms. chuck
HOA's should never dictate what we do with our homes.
See how bad HOAs can become.
Usually the folks involved have never had any position of authority in their
lives, retire and become commissars!
This
was listed in the obituaries. Somewhere in the back of the newspaper. The front
page had a story about Kim Kardashian's wedding dinner. Shows how low we have
become.
Van T. Barfoot died
Remember the guy who wouldn't
take the flag pole
down on his Virginia property a
while back?
You might remember the news story
several
months ago about a crotchety old
man in
Virginia who defied his local
Homeowners
Association, and refused to take
down the
flag pole on his property along
with the large
American flag he flew on it.
Now we learn who that old man
was.
On June 15, 1919, Van T. Barfoot
was born in
Edinburg , Texas . That probably
didn't make
news back then.
But twenty-five years later, on
May 23, 1944,
near Carano , Italy , that same
Van T. Barfoot,
who had in 1940 enlisted in the
U.S. Army, set
out alone to flank German machine
gun
positions from which gunfire was
raining
down on his fellow soldiers.
His advance took him through a
minefield but
having done so, he proceeded to
single-handedly
take out three enemy machine gun
positions,
returning with 17 prisoners of
war.
And if that weren't enough for a day's work,
he later took on and destroyed three German tanks
sent to retake the machine gun positions.
That
probably didn't make much news either,
given the
scope of the war, but it did earn
Van T.
Barfoot, who retired as a Colonel after
also
serving in Korea and Vietnam , a well
deserved
Congressional Medal of Honor.
What did
make news...Was his Neighborhood
Association's
quibble with how the 90-year-old
veteran
chose to fly the American flag outside
his
suburban Virginia home. Seems the HOA rules
said it
was OK to fly a flag on a house-mounted
bracket,
but, for decorum, items such as
Barfoot's
21-foot flagpole was "unsuitable".
Van
Barfoot had been denied a permit for
the pole,
but erected it anyway and was facing
court
action unless he agreed to take it down.
Then the
HOA story made national TV,
and the
Neighborhood Association rethought
its
position and agreed to indulge this
aging
hero who dwelt among them.
"In
the time I have left", he said to the
Associated
Press, "I plan to continue
to fly
the American flag without interference."
As well he should.
And if
any of his neighbors had taken a notion to
contest
him further, they might have done well to
read his
Medal of Honor citation first. Seems it
indicates
Mr. Van Barfoot wasn't particularly
good at
backing down.
“Always
Remember”
cji
11/19/14
Heroes
of America are passing
age and
time, injuries/wounds
taking
their daily full toll thus
allowing
MSM to ignore them
giving
instead press to idols
lustful,
greedy, egomaniacs
forgetting
who they owe the most
those
who gave their all in war
defending
their right to be foolish
as high
as the White House
to the
illegals taking advantage
those
seeking to destroy freedom
not
theirs but ours those who gave
turning
evil in something good
thus we
should always remember
the
heroes – selfless in service
some
giving all others some
all
giving to preserve freedom
as they
slowly pass away today
age and
time, injuries/wounds
passing
our American heroes!
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