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.
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. Hmm, 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 side lines 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 side lines. 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.
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Powers originally sent his letter to former Florida congressman Allen West.
West then posted the letter to his news website.
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