Yesterday January 8th, marks the birthday of Gordon Wendell Kahl, born in 1920 in Wells County, North Dakota. He would have been 106 years old.
Kahl was a World War II veteran and farmer, serving as a highly decorated turret gunner in the U.S. Army Air Corps, where he earned medals including the Silver Star, Bronze Stars, Air Medals, and Purple Hearts for downing enemy aircraft.
After the war, he returned to farming in North Dakota, married, and raised a family. In the late 1960s, he became a prominent tax protester, refusing to file federal income tax returns on grounds that he viewed the system as unconstitutional and contrary to his religious beliefs as a Christian. He associated with the Posse Comitatus movement, a far-right group that rejected federal authority beyond the county level.
His views led to legal troubles: in the 1970s, he was convicted of tax evasion, served time, and was on probation.
In February 1983, a confrontation with U.S. Marshals attempting to arrest him for a probation violation near Medina, North Dakota, escalated into a shootout. Two marshals were killed, others wounded, and Kahl’s son Yorie was injured. Kahl fled, becoming a fugitive.
Four months later, on June 3, 1983, in Smithville, Arkansas, another shootout occurred when law enforcement located him. Kahl and Lawrence County Sheriff Gene Matthews both were murdered—official accounts state they shot each other nearly simultaneously, with Kahl killed by a bullet to the head before the house was set ablaze during the standoff.
Kahl was a Christian he was A Patriot. He loved his God his family and his country!
Included is A link to his memorial. Let us not forget!
Also please keep Youri in your prayers last time I heard from him he was not well and using a walker and it was difficult for him to write.
