Veterans kneel at City Hall as Boy Scouts and police cadets recite Pledge of Allegiance

Sacramento Bee ^ | October 03, 2017 | Ryan Lillis

[artichokegrower]

A small group of military veterans knelt during the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of Tuesday night’s Sacramento City Council meeting.

The members of the local Veterans for Peace chapter took a knee in the front row of the audience as a group of police cadets and Boy Scouts recited the pledge

[artichokegrower]

Come on guys. Dissing the Boy Scouts? Get a life.

[Jane Long]

The John Fn Kerry chapter of vets?

[madison10]

Isn’t taking a knee sometimes showing respect, like knights back in the day?

[mewzilla]

Only if you’re bloody British. I’m an American. I bend neither neck nor knee to anyone on this Earth.

[b4me]

depends on their intention: respect or disrespect?

thankfully one day all this will be sorted out because every knee will bow before Jesus :)

[ealgeone]

When you kneel you do so before a superior.

[squarebarb]

Fake vets. Ten to one. Come on reporter, what were their names?

[GIdget2004]

If you read the article, the veterans say they were doing it in support of Kaepernick and others protesting police brutality.

[Gay State Conservative]

Isn’t taking a knee sometimes showing respect, like knights back in the day?

I suppose that could be true for some...but not for "Veterans For Peace".

[CMSMC]

I’d like to see the discharge code on the 214s!

[DesertRhino]

Not all vets are created equal. Most are patriots, but some are first class lowlifes and soreheads.
These appear to be siding with the NFL.

[Bringbackthedraft]

A small group of military veterans ............ Errrr? “Small” group of outcasts?

[Maverick68]

And now you see why Dems have a hard-on for allowing gays in the military?

[New Jersey Realist]

dark racist underbelly

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WTF? Name me one black American who doesn’t have the same rights and privileges as any white man in this country. I am getting sick and efing tired of all this crap.

[LouieFisk]

Sadly, being a vet doesn’t exclude the possibility of also being a total asshat.

[squarebarb]

Veterans for Peace -— Ed Asner and Phillis Bennis.

[redcatcherb412]

Isn’t taking a knee sometimes showing respect, like knights back in the day?

In California, especially the North, capital of Fruits N Nuts. Guys on their knees takes on a whole different meaning if you know what I mean, wink wink. /S

[knarf]

Exactly !

SO glad that reply showed up immediately !

[grobdriver]

The military is a cross section of America just like most other organizations - and although we tend to be heavy on the side a patriotism, there are those who join to avoid jail time... or because it's a job.

Obama had plenty of military sycophants when he would visit the field, so it's not surprising to hear there are veterans who will use their Vet status to lend weight to their social justice activism.

But - as you say: GET A LIFE!

[fwdude]

Sacrilegious-mento. Figures.