D-Day has been extended a week for a Medal of Honor recipient fighting to keep his flag flying atop his Henrico County front-yard flagpole.
Col. Van T. Barfoot was facing a 5 p.m. deadline tomorrow to remove the pole or deal with the legal consequences of willfully violating an order from his neighborhood's community association.
"There's not going to be an announcement (of a settlement) anytime this weekend," said John K. Honey, part of a legal team offering its services at no cost to Barfoot, 90.
Honey said that the homeowner association's board notified him this afternoon after an emergency meeting that it would agree to push back the deadline for removing the pole to Friday, Dec. 11.
"We can all get some breathing room," Honey said.
Barfoot, a veteran of three wars who says he has flown the American flag for most of his life, was ordered earlier this week to remove the pole because the association had rejected his request to erect it and he constructed it anyhow.
The staff of U.S. Senator Mark Warner, D-Va., has intervened to help negotiate a settlement in the dispute.
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