{"id":1240,"date":"2011-12-02T18:20:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T23:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2011-12-02T18:34:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T23:34:16","slug":"land-of-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/land-of-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Of Free"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Remember the guy who wouldn’t take the flag down?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You might remember a news story several months ago about a crotchety old man who defied his homeowners association and refused to take down the flagpole on his property and the large flag that flew on it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Now you can find out who, exactly, that old man was.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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On June 15, 1919, Van T. Barfoot was born in Edinburg — probably didn’t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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make much news back then.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Twenty-five years later, on May 23, 1944, near Carano, Italy, Van T. Barfoot,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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who had enlisted in the US Army in 1940, set out to flank German machine gun<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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positions from which fire was coming down on his fellow soldiers. He advanced<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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through a minefield, took out three enemy machine gun positions and returned<\/div>\n<\/div>\n