Who loves "America's grandpa?" I DO.

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/26/those-kids-have-every-right-to-protest-a-wwii-veteran-takes-a-knee-and-a-stand/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.531ebb21b625


On Sunday morning, Brennan Gilmore received a photo of his grandfather John Middlemas kneeling in a garden and staring into the camera from beneath a “World War II Veteran” cap.

Gilmore knew it was a powerful image.

But he had no idea that it would soon become an Internet sensation.



https://www.cbsnews.com/news/97-year-old-wwii-veteran-takes-a-knee-to-support-protesting-nfl-players/

Hours before NFL players across the league took a knee during the national anthem in defiance of President Trump on Sunday, one World War II veteran hosted a protest of his own — in his backyard.

"These people have every right to protest," John Middlemas, a 97-year-old farmer from Springfield, Missouri, told his grandson, Brennan Gilmore, before kneeling.

After a family discussion about Mr. Trump's view that players who kneel during the "The Star-Spangled Banner" should be fired, Middlemas decided to make a statement.

"We were having a discussion about it and you know, the idea that people were pointing to disrespecting military servicemen as justification for these comments," Gilmore told CBS News. "He wanted to send a message of solidarity to them."

So Middlemas walked outside to the backyard, got down on one knee and posed while his daughter, Maile Auterson, snapped a picture. Since Middlemas doesn't have a Twitter account, Gilmore volunteered to post the image himself.

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