[Nfbf-l] Fwd: How did you get where you are?

Sat Jun 5 18:09:54 UTC 2010

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Randall  White" <randallw1 at roadrunner.com>
To:  <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Subject:  How did you get where you  are?
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 07:38:59 -0500

HOW  DID YOU GET WHERE YOU ARE?  

PEOPLE  LIKE THESE, OF COURSE! 

REMEMBER THIS  GUY  

Remember  the Guy that  wouldn't  take the Flag down

I  love this....and this man certainly doesn't look  90 years  old!     

Great  soldier's story... 

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 signs 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 days 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 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.

Van T.  Barfoot's Medal of Honor  citation: 

This 1944 Medal  of Honor citation, listed with the National  Medal  
of  Honor Society, is for Second Lieutenant Van T.  Barfoot,  
157th  Infantry, 45th Infantry:
For  conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the  risk of life  
above  and beyond the call of duty on 23 May 1944, near  Carano, Italy.  

With his  platoon heavily engaged during an assault  against  
forces well  entrenched on commanding ground, 2d Lt. Barfoot   
moved off  alone upon the enemy left flank. He crawled to  the 
proximity  of 1 machinegun nest and made a direct hit on it   
with a  hand  grenade,  killing 2 and wounding 3 Germans.   
He  continued along the German defense line to  another 
machinegun  emplacement, and with his tommygun killed   
2 and  captured 3 soldiers.  

Members of  another enemy machinegun crew then abandoned  

their  position and gave themselves up to Sgt. Barfoot.  

Leaving the  prisoners for his support squad to pick up, he  

proceeded  to mop up positions in the immediate area,  capturing  

more  prisoners and bringing his total count to 17.  

Later that  day, after he had reorganized his men and  consolidated  
the newly  captured ground, the enemy launched a fierce  armored  
counterattack  directly at his platoon positions. Securing a  

bazooka,  Sgt. Barfoot took up an exposed position  directly in front 
of 3  advancing Mark VI tanks. From a distance of 75  yards his first  
shot  destroyed the track of the leading tank,  effectively disabling it, 
while the  other 2 changed direction toward the flank.  

As the crew  of the disabled tank dismounted, Sgt. Barfoot  killed 3  
of them  with his tommygun. He continued onward into  enemy 
terrain  and destroyed a recently abandoned German  fieldpiece  

with a  demolition charge placed in the breech. While  returning  
to  his platoon  position, Sgt. Barfoot, though greatly fatigued  by  
his  Herculean efforts, assisted 2 of his seriously  wounded men  
1,700 yards  to a position of safety.
Sgt.  Barfoot's extraordinary heroism, demonstration  of  

magnificent  valor, and aggressive determination in the face  of 

point blank  fire are a perpetual inspiration to his fellow  soldiers.

If you got this  email, and don't pass it on - guess what - you  

deserve to  get your pelosi kicked!   
I  sent this to you, because I didn't want to get  MY pelosi  kicked.  
WE LIVE  IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, ONLY BECAUSE  OF 
THE  BRAVE!  
IN  GOD WE  TRUST!

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