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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