I don't give a s**t moh recipient - remove your flag pole! - Disgusted.

[THUMPER20X]

Way to go Canada! This place is getting stupider,,,,if thats even possible.

[boxmonkeyracing]

Originally Posted by Moriartii

Here is the deal, he is a vet a highly decorated one at tht who has earned the right to fly that flag. At the same time being a vet he understands the chain of command. The HOA in this case is the chain of command which states that a flag pole is not allowed. He broke the chain of command and decided to do his own thing. Right wrong or indifferent, flag pole comes down - and I am a vet myself who has served and fought for my country also. I dont like the HOA's stance and I firmly agree with the old guy but I also understand the chain of command.
Kinley

I hate to disagree with you on this point. if your commander said wash my personal car would you? I wouldn't. HELL no I wouldn't. I'd be respectful torwards him/her and tell them I've got to take care of other business. you forget there are lawful and unlawful orders and I see this as an unlawful order. there is no rule in their bylaws/Covenants that says no flag poles. it was a ruling during a meeting that said don't do it.

I'm on his side no matter what. HOA's are there to protect the community. not press their own agenda. there is nothing wrong with a flag pole to fly the american flag. and a HOA should not have the power to dictate other wise.

[patriotpa]

Originally Posted by Asylum

Henrico Medal of Honor winner, 90, ordered to remove flagpole

Col. Van T. Barfoot, a local Medal of Honor winner, is under the gun from his Henrico County community's homeowner association.

In a five-paragraph letter to Barfoot that he received yesterday, Barfoot is being ordered to remove a flagpole from his yard. The decorated veteran of three wars, now 90 years old, raises the American flag every morning on the pole, then lowers and folds the flag at dusk each day in a three-corner military fashion.

In a priority mail letter, the Coates & Davenport law firm in Richmond is ordering Barfoot to remove the pole by 5 p.m. Friday or face "legal action being brought to enforce the Covenants and Restrictions against you." The letter states that Barfoot will be subject to paying all legal fees and costs in any successful legal proceeding pursued by the homeowner association's board.

Barfoot's daughter said this evening that news reports about the association order have prompted an outpouring of sympathy and offers of help from people following her father's ordeal.

Tonight, the Sussex Square Homeowners Association issued a statement reiterating its position that Barfoot directly violated the association board's denial of his request to erect a flagpole.

"This is not about the American flag. This about a flagpole," the statement reads.

Barfoot lives in the Sussex Square community in far western Henrico; its board of directors rejected a plea from Barfoot in July to approve the pole, disallowing the fixture on aesthetic grounds.

There is no provision in the community's rules expressly forbidding flagpoles, Barfoot's daughter said. But she said the board ruled against her father's fixture and ordered it removed in July, deciding that free-standing flag poles are not aesthetically appropriate. Short flag stands attached to porches dot the community.

"Dad sort of feels like this is the end," said Margaret Nicholls, Barfoot's daughter, who lives a few doors away. But she said this morning that she and her husband are attempting to generate support for her father's cause, a flag-raising rite that he has undertaken for most of his life.

Barfoot received the Medal of Honor on the battlefield during World War II in Italy and fought as well in the Korean and Vietnam wars. A portion of a highway in rural Mississippi, his native state, was named in his honor this fall. A building at McGuire Veterans Hospital in Richmond also carries his name.

Barfoot began regularly flying the flag on Veteran's Day this year despite the Sussex Square board's decision.

He said in November that not flying the flag would be a sacrilege to him.

"There's never been a day in my life or a place I've lived in my life that you couldn't fly the American flag," he said.


-- Cliff Notes
War Vet and MOH Recipient aged 90 is being told to take down his flag pole or face major law suit ect bla bla bla.


MOH Citation (Above Named)

Medal of Honor citation

Second Lieutenant Barfoot’s official Medal of Honor citation reads:
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 (then Tech. Sgt.) 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 pointblank fire are a perpetual inspiration to his fellow soldiers.[4]





This shit disgusts me, is this really what our race of people are coming to, Just less than a week after I post my idiots thread and how the world is so full of them we are all informed that the human race and its people can always find a way to sink to a new all time low.

If I lived in that state, city, or town I'm telling you right now, I'd be putting flag poles on every residents building draping them with the American Flag and telling them all to stfu and get over themselves. I mean really! I'm not even American, but the fact that these people are annoyed about a patriotic hero who went above and beyond the expectations of any mortal man... they ugh

they just need to die.

I heard Mark Levin has jumped on board to help him out. He's got some pro-bono legal help also.

How dare these punks tell a hero like this he can't celebrate being a Free American?

[Wikedwil]

What does HOA stand for? Hoard Of A$$holes?

[Captain Vlad]

Securing a bazooka, Sgt. Barfoot took up an exposed position directly in front of 3 advancing Mark VI tanks.

The dude stood in front of three Tiger tanks with a bazooka? And they turned away?

...

Someone in that HOA needs beaten.

[texan]

this is BS, i'm tearful but my eyes are dry and can only imagine what our fore fathers would say if they could live amongst the sorry s.o.b.'s that represent the minority now but seem to get all the benefits...delete my thread, close my account, spank me I don't care on this one. God Bless this gentleman and his family. May the wraith of red blooded Americans reign down on the bastardized HOA!

[Justin]

I say we start a collection and send him the biggest damned flag money can buy! The HOA can put that in their pipe and smoke it.