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Remember the guy that wouldn't take the flag down in his yard?

by author unknown (edited by CALIE)

“When Van T. Barfoot (a Choctaw Native American Indian) was born in Edinburg, Mississippi on June 15, 1919, he probably didn't make much news then or when he enlisted in the U.S. Army 21 years later (1940).

Then at the age of 25 (May 23, 1944) — on a foreign WWII battlefield near Carano, Italy — Technical Sergeant Barfoot set out alone on foot to flank German machine gun positions and stop the deadly rain of enemy bullets that were killing his fellow soldiers.

Barfoot advanced through a minefield, took out three enemy machine gun emplacements with hand grenades and expert fire from his Thompson submachine gun.......”