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Not even a catastrophic injury could prevent disabled U.S. Marine veteran Lt. Col. Ty Edwards from standing up tall with pride during the playing of the national anthem at game two of the Stanley Cup final last Wednesday.
While serving in Afghanistan in 2008, Edwards was wounded so severely that he was told by doctors that he’d likely never walk or stand again.
Thirteen years later, he proved the doctors wrong.
Watch:
Inspiring moment! Wheelchair bound Afghanistan Veteran Lt. Colonel Ty Edwards STANDS for our National Anthem before Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final in Florida!
God Bless our veterans 🙌🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/INPCGyS20V
— AllegianceToLiberty (@AllegianceTL) July 4, 2021
Edwards proved the doctors wrong only days after Gwen Berry, an Olympic track competitor who’s never sacrificed anything for America, disrespected the flag and national anthem to protest perceived “injustice.”
It’s not clear what “injustice” Berry has faced. It is, however, very clear the type of cosmic injustice that was fated to Edwards.
“On Oct. 18, 2008, Edwards, at the time a Marine lieutenant colonel, and Hakimi, his Afghan interpreter, were on a mission in Kunar province when things went terribly wrong,” according to the Military Times.
“Edwards stepped out of his Humvee when insurgents opened up with small arms fire. … Hakimi saw Edwards lying on the ground. For the interpreter and others still inside the Humvee, there wasn’t much time to think.”
Long story short, Edwards barely made it out alive. According to Fox News, he “was given a grim prognosis of ever standing or walking again.”
Thirteen years later, he’s still in rehabilitation.
“Every day he goes through an hour of rehabilitation on his own to make himself better,” director Mark Van Trees of the Support the Troops nonprofit told Fox News.
“They told him the prognosis to ever stand up or walk again was not very good… His spirit and his humbleness are just unmatched.”
Indeed, when he stood up for the anthem last Wednesday, he wasn’t even thinking about sending a message to people like Berry. In fact, he doesn’t “fault” people like her for their decision to disrespect the flag.
“I just want to pay tribute to all those that have lost their lives and made sacrifices that the average American doesn’t see, but I don’t fault anybody. It’s a free country,” he told Fox News.
In an interview on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” on the morning of July 4th, Edwards added that to him, it’s all about being grateful.
Listen:
“I’m thinking first and foremost about the men who saved me … who were with me during the ambush. I’m extremely grateful to them, because they really, they were — I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for them,” he said.
Regarding those who kneel for and disrespect the anthem, he admitted that he thinks they’re “misguided.”
I think they’re misguided to some extent. But if I’m able, I will stand, because I remember those that served alongside me and lost their life,” he said.
His humility and kindness — most critics of national anthem kneelers and disrespecters like Berry (not to mention Colin Kaepernick) are far harsher — stand as a strong contrast to the arrogance and nastiness of those who hate America.
It’s an arrogance seen in their rants about how horrible America is, their disdain for Middle Americans and their utter apathy toward the flag and anthem.
NYT editorial board member ‘very disturbed’ seeing pickup trucks and American flags on Long Island https://t.co/9CSQ2lzZY8 pic.twitter.com/oRHur1E41I
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) June 8, 2021
It’s a nastiness that’s particularly prevalent this 4th of July because of the meteoric rise in left-wing radicalism.
Case in point (*Language warning):
The American flag and the 4th of July is racist pic.twitter.com/sWorte4aus
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) July 2, 2021
If you celebrate the 4th of July, You’re a racist.
— Mackenzie E (@MackenzieEngle1) July 3, 2021
also hard block me if you celebrate 4th of july. you’re on stolen land, there’s no freedom to celebrate. there’s no freedom in white supremacy, in patriarchy,in capitalism, on stolen land.
— soph⁷🏳️🌈 noas luvr (@yeonbingender) July 4, 2021
F**k the 4th of July!!! This country was built on theft, slavery, murder, genocide and the idea that white supremacy was right. #Slavery #cancel4thofjuly #mydoghatesfireworks
— Nob Ody (@Firettay) July 4, 2021
what are we celebrating today? life just like everyday. fuck the 4th, fuck the founding “fathers”. fuck their ideals. the same way they said fuck our people, our heritage, and our way of life. this my ancestors land, not the white ones either
— Jaguar Paw (@kevinnjua) July 4, 2021
Fuck the 4th, this country & all that hyper-patriotism today. What exactly y’all celebrating? Settler-colonialism? “Independence” through genocide? Stealing indigenous land? “Freedom” as a Black or brown person when your history is whitewashed & your people are still not free?
— IRONWOMAN | TRADE EVERYONE (@habibiting) July 4, 2021
Notice how all of the ungrateful radicals above used left-wing buzzwords like “colonialism,” “indigenous land” and “patriarchy.”
To someone like Edwards who loves this country and its values — freedom of speech, due process, property rights, etc. — and who’s actually suffered and sacrificed to keep these values alive, these same buzzwords likely don’t mean a damn thing.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.
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