SONS and DAUGHTERS of BBCMF War Veterans of All Service Branches That Served or Now on Active Duty.

[NYBob]

May he Rest In Peace --- Van T. Barfoot died at the age of 92 on 2 March 2013.

May he Rest In Peace.

Van T. Barfoot died at the age of 92 on 2 March 2013.

Remember the guy who wouldn't take the flag pole down on his
Virginia property a while 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 born 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.

http://nesaranews.blogspot.ca/2013/07/may-he-rest-in-peace-van-t-barfoot-died.html

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 Congressional
Medal of Honor.
God Bless