Tag: veterans

• Don’t Equate Protest With Disrespect

  President Donald Trump catapulted the issue of growing numbers of athletes opting to “take a knee” during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner before their contests further into the limelight this past weekend, jumping in on the side of the hyper-patriotic conservative reactionaries who have been, predictably, popping gaskets over this form of protest since…

  JunkChuck

  September 25, 2017

  Commentary, Uncategorized

  disrespect, flag, football, fundatmental, kaepernick, national anthem, nfl, patriotism, president, profanity, protest, rights, sunday, trump, usa, veterans

• Colin Kaepernick Castigated For Free Speech

  Seems like I’m writing about jocks a lot of late, but what’s a guy to do? Colin Kaepernick, the once beloved, now beleaguered quarterback from the San Francisco 49ers, hit the news with a big old bang by sitting out the national anthem before his premier appearance in a pre-season nfl game last night. When…

  JunkChuck

  August 27, 2016

  Commentary

  49ers, black lives matter, colin kaepernick, controversy, flag, Forty-Niners, kaepernick, national anthem, nfl, police, San Franscisco, veterans

• What Did You Do on Memorial Day?

  I woke up, did some chores, went to the home improvement store to buy some gardening supplies, visited a friend to drop off a box of onion starts I’d grown from seed, ran by the grocery store, went to the feed & supply store to buy some tomato seedlings to replace the few that got…

  JunkChuck

  May 26, 2015

  Commentary

  america, europe, gettysburg address, heroes, lincoln, memorial day, military, ptsd, veterans, viet nam, war, world war