dclpluto
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 11, 2012
The other players, coaches, trainers and referees were not decent human beings?
Attempts to bully him were done?
yes that’s my opinion. I’m sure he was pressured to kneel from his fellow players.
The other players, coaches, trainers and referees were not decent human beings?
Attempts to bully him were done?
Sit, Stand, Kneel does it REALLY matter?
yes that’s my opinion. I’m sure he was pressured to kneel from his fellow players.
I think it does. But a better person to ask will be parents who lost a son/ daughter fighting for our country. Maybe a kid who lost a parent in war. Or maybe you should ask someone who has been paralyzed from combat who will never stand again. Maybe someone who lost a leg or arm or someone with a brain injury from combat.
sorry....reading BAnd of Brothers right now, Don malarkey use to have a table across from me at the antique collectible show in Salem, Oregon, 40 miles south of Little Beirut. Always had his coat with the airborne insignia....if I had only known what he had done for the right to kneel....I would have stood longer at the last singing of the national anthem. It is very disheartening for me to know that I failed in my right to understand the privilege of freedom.Sit, Stand, Kneel does it REALLY matter?
But that freedom is also your freedom to choose to kneel or stand if that is what you choose.It is very disheartening for me to know that I failed in my right to understand the privilege of freedom.
sorry....reading BAnd of Brothers right now, Don malarkey use to have a table across from me at the antique collectible show in Salem, Oregon, 40 miles south of Little Beirut. Always had his coat with the airborne insignia....if I had only known what he had done for the right to kneel....I would have stood longer at the last singing of the national anthem. It is very disheartening for me to know that I failed in my right to understand the privilege of freedom.
I don't understand why we have that choice.But that freedom is also your freedom to choose to kneel or stand if that is what you choose.
It is an anthem for the 54th infantry Massachusetts regimentWhat? I’ve read Band of Brothers. I watch the series every Memorial Day weekend. I’ve seen the exhibit for Doc Roe on the USS Kidd. My grandfather fought at Normandy.
Not sure what any of that has to do with the NBA kneeling for the anthem.
I think it does. But a better person to ask will be parents who lost a son/ daughter fighting for our country. Maybe a kid who lost a parent in war. Or maybe you should ask someone who has been paralyzed from combat who will never stand again. Maybe someone who lost a leg or arm or someone with a brain injury from combat.
I think it does. But a better person to ask will be parents who lost a son/ daughter fighting for our country. Maybe a kid who lost a parent in war. Or maybe you should ask someone who has been paralyzed from combat who will never stand again. Maybe someone who lost a leg or arm or someone with a brain injury from combat.
what’s wrong is that if you stand, you feel like you have to explain yourself. No American should ever have to explain why they stand for our national anthem. That is sad actually.
yes that’s my opinion. I’m sure he was pressured to kneel from his fellow players.
I don't understand why we have that choice.
they had no choice in the matter....it was required of men to die in those German forests....It was required of men to die in Viet nam. But what I do understand is that Don Malarkey made the choice to not be a coward....for surely knowing the nature of who I am, I would have knelled down in the foxholes and shot my self in the foot in order to leave that forest hellhole. Don did not, and for that I am ashamed that I did not honor his platoon sacrifices. One of the interesting stories that Don told the Salem high school classrooms is that he was passing by a group of german POWS and a young german his age was speaking perfect english, perfect Oregon English, Don heard him and stopped and talked with him and found out he was from Eugene , Oregon, where don was going to attend before the US entered the fray. Don was elated, but confused, how could an Oregonian be fighting for the German army. He carried that thought with him, when a barrage of US weaponry was going off behind him...his group rushed back...to find the POWS killed. An American killed by American soliders. He struggled with that for decades....how does that become a choice for freedom.They you don't really seem to understand what Don Malarkey and the others did.
they had no choice in the matter....it was required of men to die in those German forests....It was required of men to die in Viet nam. But what I do understand is that Don Malarkey made the choice to not be a coward....for surely knowing the nature of who I am, I would have knelled down in the foxholes and shot my self in the foot in order to leave that forest hellhole. Don did not, and for that I am ashamed that I did not honor his platoon sacrifices. One of the interesting stories that Don told the Salem high school classrooms is that he was passing by a group of german POWS and a young german his age was speaking perfect english, perfect Oregon English, Don heard him and stopped and talked with him and found out he was from Eugene , Oregon, where don was going to attend before the US entered the fray. Don was elated, but confused, how could an Oregonian be fighting for the German army. He carried that thought with him, when a barrage of US weaponry was going off behind him...his group rushed back...to find the POWS killed. An American killed by American soliders. He struggled with that for decades....how does that become a choice for freedom.
freedom???....that kid from Oregon traveled all the way across the Atlantic ocean to give freedom to the atrocities of Germany?....the Motherland!!