NFL Protesting the Flag ... Thx Paul C! I fully Agree ...

Sam Kegley

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Fwd: NFL protesting the flag - POWERFUL!! 1 message

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Paul Claxon	Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 4:25 PM
Bcc: skegley.kegley@gmail.com
 I don’t think this could have been said any better and it definitely is about time someone said it.  Hopefully, this will go out over EVERY computer in the U.S. and maybe, just maybe, these sports people will get the message of just how ridiculous they are to disrespect our flag, and how little what they do in sports compare to what our great military has done for this country.. NFL protesting the flag - POWERFUL!!                                          Ret. Marine Col. Jeffery Powers wrote to the NFL commissioners the following:   Commissioners, I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and the 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. West then posted the letter to his news website.   As of last week, at least 18 NFL players had protested the anthem by either kneeling during the anthem or raising their fists, according to USA Today Sports.       If you agree with what he said please pass this on.

Fifties People ... Thx Judi C!

A repeat but really worth seeing again................

The fifties really were very unique. I guess it's true, all things do change, and sometimes that's too bad.

 

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GOOD TO SEE THIS ONE AGAIN. 1950's version of an E-Mail   I have no idea who put this together, but it is wonderful!!     Long ago and far away, in a land that time forgot, Before the days of Dylan , or the dawn of Camelot. There lived a race of innocents, and they were you and me,     For Ike was in the White House in that land where we were born, Where navels were for oranges, andPeyton Place was porn.     We longed for love and romance, and waited for our Prince, Eddie Fisher married Liz, and no one's seen him since.     We danced to 'Little Darlin,' and sang to 'Stagger Lee' And cried for Buddy Holly in the Land That Made Me, Me.     Only girls wore earrings then, and 3 was one too many, And only boys wore flat-top cuts, except for Jean McKinney.     And only in our wildest dreams did we expect to see A boy named George with Lipstick, in the Land That Made Me, Me.     We fell for Frankie Avalon, Annette was oh, so nice, And when they made a movie, they never made it twice..     We didn't have a Star Trek Five, or Psycho Two and Three, Or Rocky-Rambo Twenty in the Land That Made Me, Me.     Miss Kitty had a heart of gold, and Chester had a limp, And Reagan was a Democrat whose co-star was a chimp.     We had a Mr. Wizard, but not a Mr. T, And Oprah couldn't talk yet, in the Land That Made Me, Me.     We had our share of heroes, we never thought they'd go, At least not Bobby Darin, or Marilyn Monroe. For youth was still eternal, and life was yet to be, And Elvis was forever in the Land That Made Me, Me.     We'd never seen the rock band that was Grateful to be Dead, And Airplanes weren't named Jefferson, and Zeppelins were not Led.     And Beatles lived in gardens then, and Monkees lived in trees, Madonna was Mary in the Land That Made Me, Me.     We'd never heard of microwaves, or telephones in cars, And babies might be bottle-fed, but they were not grown in jars.     And pumping iron got wrinkles out, and 'gay' meant fancy-free, And dorms were never co-Ed in the Land That Made Me, Me.     We hadn't seen enough of jets to talk about the lag, And microchips were what was left at the bottom of the bag.     And hardware was a box of nails, and bytes came from a flea, And rocket ships were fiction in the Land That Made Me, Me.     T-Birds came with portholes, and side shows came with freaks, And bathing suits came big enough to cover both your cheeks.     And Coke came just in bottles, and skirts below the knee, And Castro came to power near the Land That Made Me, Me.     We had no Crest with Fluoride, we had no Hill Street Blues, We had no patterned pantyhose or Lipton herbal tea Or prime-time ads for those dysfunctions in the Land That Made Me, Me.     There were no golden arches, no Perrier to chill, And fish were not called Wanda, and cats were not called Bill     And middle-aged was 35 and old was forty-three, And ancient were our parents in the Land That Made Me, Me.     But all things have a season, or so we've heard them say, And now instead of Maybelline we swear by Retin-A. They send us invitations to join AARP, We've come a long way, baby, from the Land That Made Me, Me.     So now we face a brave new world in slightly larger jeans, And wonder why they're using smaller print in magazines. And we tell our children's children of the way it used to be, Long ago and far away in the Land That Made Me, Me.     If you didn't grow up in the fiftys, you missed the greatest time in history.  Hope you enjoyed this read as much as I did.  If So, PLEASE FORWARD this note to someone who will appreciate these memories...