Posted on 09/30/2017 9:19:03 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
"The Man Without A Country", a short story, written by Edward Everett Hale, in 1863, as the Civil War was raging It is about an Army officer that has committed treason during the Revolutionary War, and has shouted out, before sentencing after being convicted, that he wishes, no longer, to hear any mention of the United States of America.
He gets his wish as the judge sentences him to life in prison to be served aboard only USA, navy ships that never touch the shores of the USA. He comes to love the USA...but no one will talk to him about her. On his death bed many years later, he invites a navy sailor into his jail room, who finds the American Flag draped around a photo of George Washington and a painting of an American Eagle with a lightening bolt flashing over its head. A friend comes to his room and sits on the bed telling him the stories and progress of his now, beloved USA!!! Every NFL, NBA, MLB "America Hater> should read this magnificent short story...that motivated the UNION cause of ending slavery and keeping the USA united. and...these fools should also read over & over again....Lincoln's magnificent, Gettysburg Address.
Today....the NFL, the NBA and the MLB are all men without a country, IMHO...shame on everyone of them!!! Pathetic, Hateful, Obamabot/Clintonite Human Beings. God forgive them, for I certainly won't!!!
NFL response: “Meh. Read some old book written by some dead (no doubt slave-owning) white guy, about another white guy? No way!”
Thank you!!! I was introduced to this short story in grammar school when I was about ten or twelve years old. Our teachers were much more patriotic and dedicated to the USA, the haters they are today.
They loved the country and they loved us. My wife and I went to see the picture in 1973, with those great actors in it. I shed tears through much of the movie, even though I was thirty-five years old.
I have traveled all over the world during my life....so I know how lucky anyone is if they are born here or, arrive as a legal immigrant. This country, along with my wife and family is the love of my life!!!
I was thinking about this story just the other week and could not remember the name.
I remember reading it in school, 5th or 6th grade, and talking it over with my dad who had also read it in school in the same teachers class.
Unfortunately the people who most need to read it are the least able to comprehend it.
But, one, they are professionals. They are acting way below anybody's professional standards in kneeling. It's nothing but childish.
Two, they are at work for their employers and most importantly, the fans who help fund their salaries. No employer lets their employees act out politically in the workspace without being stopped or shown the door.
They should protest after the game, outside the stadium, without NFL clothing or logos on. Their problem is that they are doing it in a way that rubs it into patriotic Americans faces while at a sporting event that are expensive to attend.
Three, they should not be kneeling in disrespect for our flag, the National Anthem and America, if they are protesting something else. They can't have it both ways.
They can't kneel in protest during the National Anthem, disrespecting both it, the flag and those who put their lives on the lines to insure these whiners have the chance to get wealthy by playing a game and then claim they are not disrespecting those things in the same breath.
This whole kneeling thing is a great example of mass hysteria. No one does the right thing. They just follow the lowest common denominator and make fools of themselves in the process.
Are there no adults in the NFL? Roger Goodell is not. He's part of the problem. Somebody needs to stand up to this and come down on the side of standing, not kneeling. Holding the right hand held over the heart and not clenched in a fist held high. Face the flag, be still, stop talking and show respect.
Must no be taught anymore because a whole lot of people don't know what it means anymore.
Thanking you for the link to the film. The time taken to watch. Though the story was known, the movie had never been seen. That remedied in these early morning hours.
Thank you. I do remember having to watch it for school.
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