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7-11-20

This IS NOT a joke!  am so happy to read REAL NEWS!  I have ALWAYS loved my USA! 
 (looks like someone tried to 'reorganize' the typing!)
 
 
 
SHAME ON US!!!  How hoity/toity some of us get when we think "our '***'  don't stink!!!"  one very good thing though . . . that the Real Story was told, and Mr. Barfoot was redeemed!  first of all, think he was 'handling' the flag as is required, by the USA,  . . . oops . . . a flag pole instead of a 'bracket'! he should have had a statue created for him . . . but guess that would allow more people to be disrespectful of our country and flag.
 
this is a fantastic story . . . fact IS BETTER than fiction!!!
 

Van T Barfoot died...

Remember the Guy who wouldn't take the flag pole down on his Virginia Property awhile 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 bo ern 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 Congressionalkj 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 were "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.

If you got This email and didn't pass it on -

Guess what -You need your butt kicked

I sent this To you, because I didn't want MY butt kicked!

WE ONLY LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!

AND, BECAUSE OF OLD MEN

LIKE VAN BARFOOT

 Robin Nixon <dernxn07@yahoo.com>