NEVER TOLERATE TYRANNY!....Conservative voices from the GRASSROOTS.

There are those that serve ( and deserve): and those that serve only themselves while being politicians.

One that served . . . .

Head east from Carthage on Mississippi 16 toward Philadelphia . After a few
miles a sign says you're in Edinburg . It s a good thing the sign's
there, because
there's no other way to tell.

On June 15, 1919, Van T. Barfoot was born in Edinburg -- probably
didn't
make much news back then.

Twenty-five years later, on May 23, 1944, near Carano , Italy , Van T.
Barfoot,
who had enlisted in the Army in 1940, set out to flank German machine
gun
positions from which fire was coming down on his fellow soldiers. He
advanced
through a minefield, took out three enemy machine gun positions and
returned
with 17 prisoners of war.

If that wasn'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 Congressional Medal of Honor.

What did make news last week was a neighborhood association's quibble
with
how the 90-year-old veteran chose to fly the American flag outside his
suburban
Virginia home. Seems the rules said a flag could be flown on a
house-mounted
bracket, but, for decorum, items such as Barfoot's 21-foot
flagpole were
unsuitable.

He had been denied a permit for the pole, erected it anyway and was
facing court
action if he didn't take it down. Since the story made national TV, the
neighborhood association has rethought its position and agreed to
indulge this
old hero who dwells among them

"In the time I have left I plan to continue to fly the American
flag without
interference," Barfoot told The Associated Press.

As well he should.

And if any of his neighbors still takes a notion to
contest him, they might want to
read his Medal of Honor citation.
It indicates he's not real good at backing down.

WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!
IN GOD WE TRUST