MESA, Az.— In what can only be described as a disgraceful slap in the face to one of our nation’s military heroes, a homeowner association (HOA) in the Mesa neighborhood of Oak Park has ordered Army combat veteran Marcus Wintruff to remove the flag that he proudly flies in front of his family home each morning.

“I felt like I got teabagged by a zillion manicured nutsacks when I read that letter the HOA sent us,” said Wintruff, a rural Missouri native who relocated to Arizona for work with his father-in-law’s pool supply company after being honorably discharged from the Army in 2006.

“And I say ‘manicured’ because that’s the fancy pants word what the HOA used when they would tell us to keep our grass cut ... I even had to look it up.”

“Joke’s on them, though,” he added. “I just tore out all the grass and laid down a whole mess of rocks from the Home Depot.”