VETERANS DAY 2020

On every Veterans Day, I immediately think of my Dad.  He was and is my hero, and he was the founder and inspiration behind our company which he began in 1948.

After graduating from Emory University in 1943, Lindsey Barron joined the Navy and went into training on the Northwestern University Campus in Chicago at the Navy Pier.

His ship was built in Indiana and was named LST Number 587.  They rode it down the Mississippi River and through the Panama Canal into the Pacific Ocean and into the war there.  Their job was to pick-up Marines and deliver them onto the beaches on islands that became household names.

My Dad was an ensign on the LST and was a gunnery officer in charge of a gun used to protect the ship.  He mentioned that one day they received orders to get up at 4:00 a.m., eat breakfast, and then put the Marines on the beaches at Iwo Jima.  He saw the flag raised there and he saw a Kamikaze Japanese plane hit an ammunition ship nearby, saying that the concussion from the explosion knocked everyone down on his LST.

Later on, they put Marines on Okinawa and Guam among other islands.

He told me had the atom bomb not have been dropped on Japan, they would have invaded Japan with little chance of surviving.  He told me had the bomb not have been dropped, he would not be here.

He won many service medals, and he and his shipmates, including the Captain of the LST remained lifelong friends and kept in touch.

Lindsey, also, had a brother, Zeddie, who was at Omaha Beach on 'D' Day and who was in major fighting in France, including The Battle of the Bulge.  Like my Dad, he is, also, a True American Hero.

The name Lindsey's, Inc., means more than a real estate firm.  Lindsey was a businessman, a war hero, and a true Christian southern gentleman who loved his country.  He taught us to always seek to live and work according to The Golden Rule.

I am so honored to be the son of one who risked everything in order to preserve the freedoms that we have today in the USA.  We can never forget the debt that we owe to so many brave Americans in all of our wars.