Daryl Craig Gant, of Lake Ave., fancies himself a patriot. He flies an American flag in his front yard atop a flag for the United States Marine Corp; but one thing that doesn’t fly in Daryl’s world is unpatriotic Americans. While he never served in the military because of his failings on mental aptitude tests, supporting the troops and the United States is Daryl’s main objective in life. “I see more and more stories these days about people against our wars, against our guns, just against all sorts of anything you can think of.” Daryl said. “Freedom is all we have left and I’m going to fight those that protest in a way I don’t like much.”
It was that stance that landed Daryl in hot water last year. While walking up to Speedway last August Daryl noticed a man doing something that he couldn’t overlook. The man was stomping and kicking what appeared to be the flag of the United States. “I was outraged. There are people from this town that died for his right to desecrate that flag and he’s going to sit there and do that to them? I don’t think so!”
Daryl pulled out his 9mm handgun, his AR-15 assault rifle and his backup AR-15 assault rife and approached the man, prepared to shoot him down if need be. After explaining to the man about his intent to shoot him he noticed something strange about the flag the man was kicking. Instead of 50 stars it had but one large star. “Tell me what that means now or I’ll shoot you dead, boy!” Daryl exclaimed, growing increasingly impatient.
Daryl had an impressive collection on the day he was about to shoot Michael.
Michael Clark has more love for America than he has for his wife and 6 kids combined. Michael, a 2013 Tecumseh grad, had noticed the President doing something he didn’t approve of last year. “Obama had refused to shut off air travel to Liberia when they were passing around Ebolas left and right, so I got a Liberia flag to kick in the front yard. I never thought about how it looked a little like Old Glory.”
Liberians have great pride in their flag…. but should they be more worried about Ebola?
Today, Michael and Daryl meet once a month to stomp on the Liberian flag. We aren’t sure why they still do this since the Ebola scare has mostly passed in America, but whatever it takes to forge a friendship is okay in our book.