I was sent to Texas to serve on the burial Honor Guard. It was an assignment nobody wanted. I was 19 years old and serving at the funerals of other 19 year olds. It was difficult. After four funerals, I couldn\u2019t do it anymore. I was sent to a military camp in the jungle along the Thai border with Laos. To keep back the jungle, chemicals were sprayed to kill the foliage. I am living with the effects of that today and have been granted a disability pension and VA care due to Agent Orange. My choices and my politics are my own. I don\u2019t always agree with other people\u2019s opinions in Croton but all of us have the right to free speech. People ask me why I don\u2019t surrender and take down my flag. It is because of the values I learned growing up here in Croton. It is because I am my father\u2019s son.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On his own property. This nonsense has now gone national and he was on Newsmax tonight. Pictures if you hit the link. I was sent to Texas to serve on the burial Honor Guard. It was an assignment nobody wanted. I was 19 years old and serving at the funerals of other 19 year olds. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6163,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/6163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}