I'm a veteran, and if you think I served so that football players...

[syringis]

[brush]

1. Dan Currie you just got an instant fan.

[notdarkyet]

2. Me too.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Who is this? The OP author?

[oberliner]

41. Pretty sure the OP author is not the person in the photo

[Tipperary]

64. Seriously? You are not familiar with this OP?

No, this is not the op, but this op posts a lot of noteworthy ops.

[Eliot Rosewater]

65. I didnt say that but I suspect you KNOW I didnt say that

[lunatica]

4. I love your OPs Syringis!

[xeodtech]

5. As a Vet.. Me Too!!

[Rural_Progressive]

23. Got that right

I'm something like the 7th or 8th generation in my family to serve. Dad received the Silver Star in WWII and I know he'd agree with Dan on this matter.

None of us, going back to the early 19th century, served so Donnie O, or anyone of his ilk, could turn this country into a fully owned subsidiary of ANY foreign power.

[unblock]

6. note that it was a veteran (green beret) who suggested kneeling during the anthem to kaepernick

really, if we didn't know damn well it was just a distraction tactic, we'd have to say it's completely idiotic to:

(a) interpret kneeling as a sign of disrespect (on the contrary, it's *respectful* in any other circumstance, such as when proposing or praying or getting knighted) and also

(b) then go the extra derivative step of interpreting a perceived offense against the anthem and/or the flag as an affront to veterans. the anthem and the flag belong to all of us. veterans have no special claim to it.

[geardaddy]

14. I didn't know that about the veteran suggesting that to Kaepernick

Cool.

[unblock]

16. here's the snopes link:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/veteran-kaepernick-take-a-knee-anthem/

[geardaddy]

47. Cool!

Thanks for the link!

[demigoddess]

63. my thoughts, too, I never saw kneeling as an insult.

Maybe the whole audience should kneel too. They would not throw out paying customers, would they??

ps my father and stepfather both fought in wars, they would not expect the players to give up kneeling.

[Toorich]

7. Dan the Man!!!

...Huah...

[Different Drummer]

8. My kind of veteran! n/t

[Wounded Bear]

9. Yep! Me too!

[Aristus]

10. Me too!

[KG]

11. i find it troubling that forms of protests seem to need approval of authoritarians

[PJMcK]

19. Yeah

There's a strange collapse of logic, isn't there?

Of course, if Trump had his way, his critics would be either bankrupted or jailed.

[magicarpet]

29. Try shot by firing squad.... or stoned to death as in the buybull.

[Brother Buzz]

12. This dumb draftee didn't connect much with the military, but....

a big hooah, hooyah, oohrah, or what ever they were always yelling in the Cavalry to Dan Currie jr on this one.

[Armymedic88]

13. Me too

[Rene]

15. Hooray Dan Thank You for your Service

[njhoneybadger]

17. Thank you, Sir

[Elwood P Dowd]

18. Another Me Too.

Seems like the biggest, loudest, and most vociferous shit throwers are draft dodgers and chicken hawks such as Trump, Savage, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, etc..

[sarge43]

37. Yes sir. They're all posers and poltroons. Yes, I'm being too kind. n/t

[MrScorpio]

20. Another vet right here!

[Still In Wisconsin]

21. My Dad fought in the Korean war. He's also a lifelong Packer fan and NFL fan in general.

His opinion is that players SHOULD be taking a knee until the targeting of black citizens by the police ends. By the way, Dad was a cop after leaving the Marine Corps.

[kairos12]

22. Total agreement from this Vet.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

24. Vet here, agree wholeheartedly... nt

[Initech]

25. This is going on my Twitter feed!

[onethatcares]

26. me too.

did it to support the Constitution of the United States of America. I join with Don

[magicarpet]

31. trDump took the same oath to defend the US Constitution...

.... but failed to take that oath as seriously.
Don the Con and Don the Vet are two very different men - one is an Authoritarian Fascist the other a patriot who respects what this country really stand for.

[onethatcares]

35. I understand that and side with the Veteran

there is a world of difference tween the two.

Did you get your handle from Steppenwolf?

[magicarpet]

40. Actually it is an ethnic thing....

.... my great-grandfather willed me a magic carpet he brought from the old country. It really is quite the nice ride. I am trying to convert it from petrol to solar powered so it doesn't leave a slight smoke trail behind.

[treestar]

27. He gets it

If they are really defending this country, that is what they are defending.

[Anon-C]

28. This Exactly!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Civic Justice]

30. Trump gives us the example in real life, what it is like to be under a dictator.

Sadly, we as a nation are allowing it to go on far too long. It insults everything people have served and died to build, support and protect.

Trump and the Republican Congress should get the penalty for Treason Against Everything American Democracy is built upon, everything it stand to represent.
This attack on our Judicial system and the civility of people to protest, is something American should NEVER tolerate and certainly not endure for the length of time and the expanse of the insults he's done to America, American People and our American systems and institutions.

[magicarpet]

32. Don the Con is a perception management specialist...

.... and propaganda expert to the feeble minded and Nazis among us. He is a habitual liar and cheater and extortionist - but the Nazis love him for it because he pisses off liberals and progressives.

[Uncle Joe]

33. Kicked and recommended.

Same here.

Thanks for the thread syringis

[sarge43]

34. Hand salute, Mr Currie. Double damned right!!

We veterans have sworn or affirmed to protect, preserve and defend the Constitution of United States; that's our first and most important order.

I'll take a knee or link arms with those football players; they're true Americans.

[weissmam]

36. Hooah!

[Submariner]

38. This ex-swab jockey is with you

[smirkymonkey]

39. Hear, Hear!

Thank you for your service!

[shadowmayor]

42. Yeppers!

If someone kneeling during the national anthem bothers you more than the sight of your fellow citizens being gunned down in the streets, then perhaps you are part of the problem! I am a veteran and I approve of Dan's message!

[ooky]

43. Well said. Me too!

[Cha]

44. Oh and Fuck Dictator trump

[XRubicon]

45. Me Too

[green917]

46. As I just remarked when sharing this on my Facebook wal...

Not only does this veteran agree wholeheartedly but this entire ridiculous debate brings to mind one of my favorite pieces of political writing... take it away Aaron Sorkin:

"You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours." You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms.

Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.

[BobTheSubgenius]

48. Hell yes, Mr. Currie.

We should all be grateful to all of our veterans, but you belong to a group that deserves just a little bit more.

[TomSlick]

49. Yeah, me too.

I understood the oath.

[Permanut]

50. Another vet here..

And I'm with Dan all the way on this one.

[woofless]

51. Me too.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

52. DAN THE MAN!!!

[Demovictory9]

53. kick

[BlueJac]

54. K&R

[The Wizard]

55. The worst among us

wrap themselves in the flag and chant USA USA USA (American Seig Heil).

[usaf-vet]

56. Three generation of our family served. So all Constitutional rights would be protected.

So WE too. WW I, WW II and Vietnam.

[yardwork]

57. Love you, Dan Currie!

[Ernesto]

58. Count me in!

[CRK7376]

59. Me too

and I wore Army Green for 38 years and always supported the Democratic Party. While in green I did keep my political preference to myself, tried to be apolitical as most officers and senior NCOs did. Well said Mr. Currie!

[ailsagirl]

60. You Go, Dan!!

[niyad]

61. YES!!!!!!!

[onecent]

62. i'M ON your side Dan A. Currie!!!!