{"id":23242,"date":"2011-05-05T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T21:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23242"},"modified":"2011-05-05T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T21:11:40","slug":"vets-invaluable-flag-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23242","title":{"rendered":"Vet’s invaluable flag stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s up with these people<\/a>?<\/p>\n

While on patrol, the Third Platoon of Alpha Company, 120th Infantry, was ambushed at dawn by a large enemy force. Despite overwhelming odds, its soldiers killed 150 insurgents while losing just two of its own men. One was Spc. Daniel A. Desens Jr., whose Bradley fighting vehicle was hit by rocket-propelled grenades, destroying his left leg.<\/p>\n

Platoon Sgt. 1st Class Chad Stephens climbed onto the vehicle under heavy gunfire, pulled the young gunner from the top and lowered him to Farve, a medic and another soldier. He bled to death in their arms.<\/p>\n

Stephens earned a Silver Star for valor. Farve got the flag that draped Desens’ coffin during its trip from the morgue to a C-130 transport plan. He never had reason to fly it. Then terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was killed.<\/p>\n

“We flew Desens’ flag because he died in pursuit of this man,” Farve said. “We wanted him to see his flag flying for this.”<\/p>\n

Farve, who had rotator cuff surgery on Friday, and companion Ginger Surratt hung the 4-by-6-foot flag at about 6 p.m. Monday. When Surratt went to bring it in for the night, it was gone.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The police weren’t interested enough to investigate. Farve offers that if he finds the flag on his porch, he won’t ask any questions about it’s disappearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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