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.
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