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From: Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sparkscoffee] NFL Players Protesting The American Flag
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 13:03:45 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
Subject: NFL protesting the flag
Ret Marine Col. Jeffery Powers wrote to the NFL commissioners the following;
Commissioner,
I’ve 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’re something special! They’re not! My Marines and
Soldiers were!
You are complicit in this! You’ll 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, it’s 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’re 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 allowed
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 don’t do it for an hour 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 don’t even have
ice! Many don’t 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.
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