This may or may not be from who it says it's from but it mirrors my thoughts and opinions. We haven't seen this disrespect for our nation and what it stands for since Vietnam. It's Un-American Behavior, IMHO.
I think that the Colonel Powers is right.
>***************
>**** NFL protesting the flag
>
> Retired Marine Colonel Jeffery Powers wrote to the NFL
> commissioners the
> following :
>
> Commissioner:
>
> I have been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale
> Bowl and Giants
> Stadium.
>
> I missed the 90-91 season because I was with a battalion of
> Marines in
> Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with
> the American
> Flag draped across their lifeless bodies. My last
> conversation with one of
> them, Sgt Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were
> going to the
> Super Bowl. He never got to see it.
>
> Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who
> worked with or for
> me through the years returned home with the American Flag
> draped over
> their coffins.
>
> Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes who never did
> anything in their
> lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans
> fought and died
> for. They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the
> graves of real
> men, men who have actually done something for this country
> beside playing
> with a ball and believing they are something special! They
> are not! My
> Marines and Soldiers were!
>
> You are complicit in this! You fine players for large and
> small
> infractions but you lack the moral courage and respect for
> our nation and
> the fallen to put an* immediate stop to this. Yes, I
> know, its their 1st
> Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner.
>
> What would happen if they came out and disrespected you or
> the refs publicly?
>
> I observed a player getting a personal foul for twerking in
> the end zone
> after scoring. I guess that's much worse than disrespecting
> the flag and
> our National* Anthem. Hmmmmm, isn't it his 1st
> Amendment right to express
> himself like an idiot in the end zone?
>
> Why is taunting not allowed yet taunting America is OK? You
> fine players
> for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes yet you allow scum on
> the sidelines
> to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air. They
> are so deprived
> with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing a
> freaking game!
>
> You condone it all by your refusal to act. You are just as
> bad and
> disgusting as they are. I hope Americans boycott any sponsor
> who supports
> that rabble you call the NFL. I hope they turn off the TV
> when any team
> that allows this disrespect to occur, without consequence,
> on the
> sidelines. I applaud those who have not.
>
> Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads. They wear body
> armor and
> carry rifles.
>
> They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from
> their
> families. They do it for two hours on Sunday. They do it
> 24/7 often with
> lead, not footballs, coming in their direction. They watch
> their brothers
> carted off in pieces not on a gurney to get their knee iced.
> They do not
> even have ice! Many do not have legs or* arms.
>
> Some wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of
> America. They
> wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than
> down to
> safety. On 9-11, hundreds vanished. They are the heroes.
>
> I hope that your high paid protesting pretty boys and you,
> look in that
> mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are,
> legends in
> your own minds. You need to hit the road and take those
> worms with you!
>
>
> Time to change the channel.
>
> Powers originally sent his letter to former Florida
> congressman Allen West
> (one of America's best). West then posted the letter to his
> news website.
>
> As of last week, at least 18 NFL player had protested the
> anthem by either
> kneeling during the anthem or raising their fists, according
> to USA Today
> Sports.
>
> Flag loving Americans will pass this message on.
>
I think that the Colonel Powers is right.
>***************
>**** NFL protesting the flag
>
> Retired Marine Colonel Jeffery Powers wrote to the NFL
> commissioners the
> following :
>
> Commissioner:
>
> I have been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale
> Bowl and Giants
> Stadium.
>
> I missed the 90-91 season because I was with a battalion of
> Marines in
> Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with
> the American
> Flag draped across their lifeless bodies. My last
> conversation with one of
> them, Sgt Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were
> going to the
> Super Bowl. He never got to see it.
>
> Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who
> worked with or for
> me through the years returned home with the American Flag
> draped over
> their coffins.
>
> Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes who never did
> anything in their
> lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans
> fought and died
> for. They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the
> graves of real
> men, men who have actually done something for this country
> beside playing
> with a ball and believing they are something special! They
> are not! My
> Marines and Soldiers were!
>
> You are complicit in this! You fine players for large and
> small
> infractions but you lack the moral courage and respect for
> our nation and
> the fallen to put an* immediate stop to this. Yes, I
> know, its their 1st
> Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner.
>
> What would happen if they came out and disrespected you or
> the refs publicly?
>
> I observed a player getting a personal foul for twerking in
> the end zone
> after scoring. I guess that's much worse than disrespecting
> the flag and
> our National* Anthem. Hmmmmm, isn't it his 1st
> Amendment right to express
> himself like an idiot in the end zone?
>
> Why is taunting not allowed yet taunting America is OK? You
> fine players
> for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes yet you allow scum on
> the sidelines
> to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air. They
> are so deprived
> with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing a
> freaking game!
>
> You condone it all by your refusal to act. You are just as
> bad and
> disgusting as they are. I hope Americans boycott any sponsor
> who supports
> that rabble you call the NFL. I hope they turn off the TV
> when any team
> that allows this disrespect to occur, without consequence,
> on the
> sidelines. I applaud those who have not.
>
> Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads. They wear body
> armor and
> carry rifles.
>
> They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from
> their
> families. They do it for two hours on Sunday. They do it
> 24/7 often with
> lead, not footballs, coming in their direction. They watch
> their brothers
> carted off in pieces not on a gurney to get their knee iced.
> They do not
> even have ice! Many do not have legs or* arms.
>
> Some wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of
> America. They
> wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than
> down to
> safety. On 9-11, hundreds vanished. They are the heroes.
>
> I hope that your high paid protesting pretty boys and you,
> look in that
> mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are,
> legends in
> your own minds. You need to hit the road and take those
> worms with you!
>
>
> Time to change the channel.
>
> Powers originally sent his letter to former Florida
> congressman Allen West
> (one of America's best). West then posted the letter to his
> news website.
>
> As of last week, at least 18 NFL player had protested the
> anthem by either
> kneeling during the anthem or raising their fists, according
> to USA Today
> Sports.
>
> Flag loving Americans will pass this message on.
>
