Take a Knee

Take a little trip to Valley Forge in January. If you don't know where that is, just Google it from the sidelines. Hold a musket ball in your fingers and imagine it piercing your flesh and breaking a bone or two. There won't be a doctor or trainer to assist you until after the battle, so just wait your turn. Take your cleats and socks off to get a real experience. Then take a knee.

Then, take one at the beach in Normandy where man after American man stormed the beach, even as the one in front of him was shot to pieces...the very sea stained with American blood. The only blockers most had were the dead bodies in front of them, riddled with bullets from enemy fire.

Take a knee in the sweat soaked jungles of Vietnam, from Khe Sanh to Saigon… Anywhere will do. REAL Americans died in all those jungles. There was no playbook that told them what was next, but they knew what flag they represented. When they came home, they were protested as well…and spit on for reasons only cowards know.

Take another knee in the blood drenched sands of Fallujah in 110 degree heat. Wear your Kevlar helmet and battle dress... Your number won't be printed on it unless your number is up! You'll need to stay hydrated but there won't be anyone to squirt Gatorade into your mouth. You're on your own.

There's a lot of places to take a knee. Real Americans have given their lives all over the world. When you use the banner under which they fought as a source for your displeasure, you dishonor the memories of those who bled for the very freedoms you have. That's what the red stripes mean. It represents the blood of those who spilled a sea of it defending your liberty.

While you're on your knee, pray for those that came before you, not on a manicured lawn striped and printed with numbers to announce every inch of ground taken...but on nameless hills and bloodied beaches and sweltering forests and bitter cold mountains...every inch marked by an American life lost serving that flag you protest.

No cheerleaders, no announcers, no coaches, no fans...just American men and women...delivering the real fight against those who chose to harm us...blazing a path so you would have the right to "take a knee."

You haven't an inkling what it took to get you where you are; but your "protest" is duly noted. Not only is it disgraceful to a nation of real heroes, it serves the purpose of pointing to your ingratitude for those who chose to defend you under that banner that will still wave long after your jersey is issued to another...

If you really feel the need to take a knee, come with me to church on Sunday and we'll both kneel before Almighty God. We'll thank Him for preserving this country for as long as He has. We'll beg forgiveness for our ingratitude for all He has provided us. We'll appeal to Him for understanding and wisdom. We'll pray for liberty and justice for all....because He is the one who provides those things.

And there will be no protest. There will only be gratitude for His provision and a plea for His continued grace and mercy on the land of the free and the home of the brave

Well said!!!!!!

Simply outstanding!
I say Amen.

Silent

USMC-NAV, well written! Thank you for sharing.

Wow, just wow. Thanks for posting.

I saw this attributed to Ted Nugent. Whoever - well said.

Adios,

Pizza Bob

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Originally posted by Pizza Bob:
I saw this attributed to Ted Nugent. Whoever - well said.

Adios,

Pizza Bob

The post from Nugent has an attribute to Stanislaus Drew at he bottom of the page.
Nevertheless, well said.

Well said, whomever said it. Similar concept, visualized below at the Patriot Post.

Well spoken. I'll also be taking on knee on supporting those companies who pay the NFL so as to attempt to get me to buy their products. If they want to support all of that silliness, fine, go ahead. But don't expect me to support you when you do.

On point, thanks for posting.

Thanks, for posting ALL of the above.

That pretty well says what is in my heart, and my mind. I just hope the DJT doesn't turn this disgrace loose, and move on to other things.

Can't take credit for the writing.....saw on another site and thought it was powerful. Don't know who the author is, wish I did.

This is having your knee(s) taken, and keeping going anyway.



Colonel Gregory D. Gadson walks with his new prostheses in the clinic as his son looks on. He asked to remain on active duty after losing his legs to an IED in Iraq in 2007 and became the first person with bilateral lower-limb amputations to assume the garrison command of a major Army installation, Fort Belvoir, VA.



Staff Sergeant Nick Lavery, US Army Special Forces, after losing his leg during a firefight in Afghanistan…he refused to be medically discharged. This man now trains future Green Berets as a tactical combat instructor at Fort Bragg.

BTW, Staff Sergeant, for you, that is 100% legal in Service Rifle.



Group Captain Douglas Bader, bilateral amputee racked up 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable, and 11 enemy aircraft damaged during WWII, then after being captured made such a nuisance of himself the Germans threatened to take away his legs, then gave up and threw him into their most secure prison, Colditz Castle Oflag IV-C.



Colonel Paul Langan, U.S. Army Medical Corps. My maternal grandfather. He lost a leg above the knee hopping a train to work at age 14. He became a physician and pioneer radiologist. He was inducted into the Army after Pearl Harbor and served the entire war. He rests today in Arlington National Cemetery.

Simultaneously tearing up and getting furious reading that. It is that good.

All I can think of during this controversy is my son telling me and the wife that he was going to Afghanistan. We were like: "Umm, that's not good. Maybe you can transfer to another unit".

He just looked at us and said something like: "This is my duty. This is how you raised me." I was (and still am) so proud of that kid.

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Simultaneously tearing up and getting furious reading that. It is that good.

All I can think of during this controversy is my son telling me and the wife that he was going to Afghanistan. We were like: "Umm, that's not good. Maybe you can transfer to another unit".

He just looked at us and said something like: "This is my duty. This is how you raised me." I was (and still am) so proud of that kid.

Rock on, young man.

Staff Sergeant Nick Lavery, US Army Special Forces,

I personally know Nick. He has been in our house on a few occasions. Also was at my grandson's house to celebrate the birth of his daughter. Nick was also there.

For those who do not know the story, Nick lost his leg by throwing himself on top of a new E3 driver assigned to support the team. An insider attack by an Afghan National Police officer

He took several rounds through his thigh, destroying blood vessels, and ended up losing his leg. He fought his way back to his team, the only case where a team member with a leg amputated above the knee got back on the team.

I had a helmet cam video of the IED incident in which my grandson was wounded, along with several others. Video shows Nick standing on top of the overturned and burning armored truck. He was pulling team members out of the truck. He came under enemy fire, was creased across the face. Returned fire killing the 2 taliban, and pulled the rest of the folks out of the truck.

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Originally posted by Elk Hunter:
Staff Sergeant Nick Lavery, US Army Special Forces,

I personally know Nick. He has been in our house on a few occasions. Also was at my grandson's house to celebrate the birth of his daughter. Nick was also there.

For those who do not know the story, Nick lost his leg by throwing himself on top of a new E3 driver assigned to support the team. An insider attack by an Afghan National Police officer

He took several rounds through his thigh, destroying blood vessels, and ended up losing his leg. He fought his way back to his team, the only case where a team member with a leg amputated above the knee got back on the team.

I had a helmet cam video of the IED incident in which my grandson was wounded, along with several others. Video shows Nick standing on top of the overturned and burning armored truck. He was pulling team members out of the truck. He came under enemy fire, was creased across the face. Returned fire killing the 2 taliban, and pulled the rest of the folks out of the truck.

He is a 153,654,987,378,999,878,865,448,975,433,099,875,653.3% American hero and few know his name.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:

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Originally posted by Elk Hunter:
Staff Sergeant Nick Lavery, US Army Special Forces,

I personally know Nick. He has been in our house on a few occasions. Also was at my grandson's house to celebrate the birth of his daughter. Nick was also there.

For those who do not know the story, Nick lost his leg by throwing himself on top of a new E3 driver assigned to support the team. An insider attack by an Afghan National Police officer

He took several rounds through his thigh, destroying blood vessels, and ended up losing his leg. He fought his way back to his team, the only case where a team member with a leg amputated above the knee got back on the team.

I had a helmet cam video of the IED incident in which my grandson was wounded, along with several others. Video shows Nick standing on top of the overturned and burning armored truck. He was pulling team members out of the truck. He came under enemy fire, was creased across the face. Returned fire killing the 2 taliban, and pulled the rest of the folks out of the truck.

He is a 153,654,987,378,999,878,865,448,975,433,099,875,653.3% American hero and few know his name.

Amen. God bless him.

Please thank Nick for his service and sacrifice. Thank your grandson as well.

Living not far from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, I regularly see young sailors in various public places. If I encounter one, I always thank them for their service, even though most of them can count it in weeks.

Here is a black athlete taking a knee.
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