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2009-12-04 Home Front: Politix

US veteran, 108, fights for WWI memorial

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Posted by Pappy 2009-12-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I have long been of a mind that it is essential to teach children about World War I, emphasizing both the futility of massed infantry wars, and the horrifying character of chemical warfare.

It is right and proper that the 20th Century be remembered as the century of weapons of mass destruction, and more importantly, the willingness to use them. Chemical weapons in World War I as well as the use of herbicides in Vietnam, nuclear weapons in World War II and the Cold War.

And not to forget the horrors visited on mankind by nature's biological weapons, such as the Spanish flu which may have ended World War I, the epidemics that ravaged US training camps in World War II, and the hantavirus epidemic that decimated the Chinese ranks in the Korean War, and might have changed the outcome in our favor.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-12-04 09:02|| 2009-12-04 09:02|| Front Page Top

#2 In another story:

WWII Vet Fights Homeowners Group Over Va. Flagpole

Medal of Honor recipient Col. Van T. Barfoot, 90, and his daughter Margaret Nicholls lower the flag outside Barfoot's home in the Sussex Square subdivision in western Henrico County, Va., on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. According to the subdivision's homeowner association's board, Col. Barfoot is in violation because he flies the flag from a flagpole instead of a pole attached to his porch or doorway. Col. Barfoot has been ordered to remove the pole by 5pm on Friday or face legal actio

One of the nation's oldest Medal of Honor winners was back in the fight Thursday, this time against a neighborhood association that wants him to take down a front-yard flagpole.

Supporters, including a U.S. senator, have been falling in behind 90-year-old retired Army Col. Van T. Barfoot, a World War II veteran awarded the lofty Congressional honor for actions including standing up to three German tanks with a bazooka and stopping their advance.

Posted by Willy 2009-12-04 10:53|| 2009-12-04 10:53|| Front Page Top

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