re: I glad these kneelers where not at Normandy or Guadalcanal

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I am writing on the internet in my ideal time after spending 30 years in the Military, serving in leadership roles and flying multi-million equipment. In other words, I have some experience to back up my point of views. The definition of learning is defined as a change of behavior as a result of experience. This generation is not learning, because they are not experiencing anything.

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And yet they are. I say that as a military veteran and coming from a military family. I have family members who fall into this despised generation and they are currently serving.

They are not experiencing anything is, I must say, a somewhat shabby argument when you are talking about 18 year olds. "These people are just old enough to vote! How dare they not have the hard earned life experience that I do?"

I'm just a few years younger then you I would imagine. I am, in fact, 49. I can site a great deal of incidents where both the Baby Boomers and the Gen X made this current generation look like warrior monks. We do not come from generations that can piss on those that follow us from a great height.

I am not some teen aged punk. I have been there. I have done that. Do not presume to judge me.

I do not need evidence because I am part of some spoiled generation. I need evidence because I have been around long enough to know that sometimes people are mad and talking off their heads. You are mad.

You are mad because people are kneeling during the national anthem, despite the fact that both of us have served in a military devoted to ensuring they get the right to do just that. Your 30 years in the military? It was so kids can display their political beliefs... whether you like those beliefs or not.

I think kneeling during the anthem sucks. But I will go back into uniform tomorrow and fight the entire world so that kids today can kneel if they want to.

Either you believe what this country was built on, which includes political dissent that does not agree with your viewpoints, or you want something that is not what we intended when we created this great nation.

The kids are alright. Bitch and moan all you want, but they will do just fine. Just like the rest of us did just fine when it was our time in the barrel.

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If you cant figure the link of a person's family of the 40's era fightin and dying for the country, values, and flag that it represents and the stupid people of today trashing that then you are really stuuuuupiid. I talk to my 93 year old FIL who spent time on Okinawa and the memories still to this day bring back tears. These stupid cucks dont know sacrifice or the meaning of it. Life aint on an xbox dude. Further, I would bet my arse that these young men have never seen any racism like their fathers and grandfathers faced. They would not know it if it hit em in the face.

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This is the equivalent to “get off my lawn you damn kids”.

You should be happy that this generation hasn’t had to fight in a war like that generation did. You should hope that no generation ever has to fight in a war like that again.

Arksulli is speaking the truth. Frick anyone who doesn’t agree. Each generation has strong, stable men and women. Each generation has its share of punk bitches, too.


Billy Joel said it best:

“I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage
I found that just surviving was a noble fight
I once believed in causes too
I had my pointless point of view
And life went on no matter who was wrong or right“

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And yet they are. I say that as a military veteran and coming from a military family. I have family members who fall into this despised generation and they are currently serving.

They are not experiencing anything is, I must say, a somewhat shabby argument when you are talking about 18 year olds. "These people are just old enough to vote! How dare they not have the hard earned life experience that I do?"

I'm just a few years younger then you I would imagine. I am, in fact, 49. I can site a great deal of incidents where both the Baby Boomers and the Gen X made this current generation look like warrior monks. We do not come from generations that can piss on those that follow us from a great height.

I am not some teen aged punk. I have been there. I have done that. Do not presume to judge me.

I do not need evidence because I am part of some spoiled generation. I need evidence because I have been around long enough to know that sometimes people are mad and talking off their heads. You are mad.

You are mad because people are kneeling during the national anthem, despite the fact that both of us have served in a military devoted to ensuring they get the right to do just that. Your 30 years in the military? It was so kids can display their political beliefs... whether you like those beliefs or not.

I think kneeling during the anthem sucks. But I will go back into uniform tomorrow and fight the entire world so that kids today can kneel if they want to.

Either you believe what this country was built on, which includes political dissent that does not agree with your viewpoints, or you want something that is not what we intended when we created this great nation.

The kids are alright. Bitch and moan all you want, but they will do just fine. Just like the rest of us did just fine when it was our time in the barrel.

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There are kids in every generation that get it. I would say the ones who are serving now have sacrificed more than any generation since the "Greatest Generation" because of the multiple deployments. But again, I am not talking about them, but about their classmates that chose not to serve (not a problem)

I have three sons that fall in this generational category. I have watched this generation first hand. You asked who to blame and I told you the parents. I am just as guilty as the next. I have been a great enabler to this pattern as any parent. I understand their political views and in fact my oldest is more conservative politically than me. That is one of the problems, I tell him all the time, before you form any opinion on a subject, experience life before you judge. Go see the world before you try to fight and save it.

I love the Facebook Warriors that judge the rest of the world based on their vast experience. They are not just 18 year olds, they are Mothers and Fathers who cry about the injustices of the US and how we treat immigrants on the border and their plight to get here. They are insulted when our President calls other countries "shite holes", but in fact most of them have only seen the world thru the fist-class window on an airliner, a porthole on a cruise ship or thru a window in a cab on their way to a five star resort. And many are 49 year olds.

I have always said that the players have every right to kneel for the anthem. But those rights extends to those who feel it does dishonor to this country. Again a lesson I try to teach my children, with every action, there will be a reaction. Don't complain about the reaction.

Kermit is a good man and the team did nothing embarrassing.

Let it go. It doesn’t change your life at all one way or the other.

Some of y’all are grumpy bastards who need to get laid.

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Frick anyone who doesn’t agree.

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This mindset is becoming more prevalent and helps absolutely nothing.

What’s great about it, bud?

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Nobody is going to cause them physical harm

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oh.. well everything is fine then...

There you go, that’s how it’s done.