The liberal critics have found fault with the film but the public has not!
For the second weekend in a row it was the highest grossing movie in
America despite the bad mouthing of the film's liberal Hollywood critics who
were hoping to put a damper on the success of the film and they failed
miserably this past week. Thanx for sending and am Forwarding it on to lots of
folks and a historical sight as well as a political site.
Bill
P.S. This man who occupys the White House can speak nicely about
black thugs who attacked and then were killed by "racisist white cops" but the
silence is deafening when it comes to the death of a true American hero.
In a message dated 1/25/2015 12:42:37 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
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From: Joe Safier <[email protected]>
I received this from a good friend and fellow former Civil Grand Juror.
I haven't had a chance to verify the story.
Just saw the movie and thought it was very well done – however, there
is a lot more that could have been added after reading what is said
below. Darla
Subject: American Sniper
Worth reading!
This is why America will remain strong. We take care of our own as
well as others who may not deserve taking care of. I just wanted to
share with you all that out of a horrible tragedy we were blessed by
so many people.
Chris Kyle was Derek's teammate through 10 years of training and
battle. They both suffer/suffered from PTSD to some extent and took
great care of each other because of it.
2006 in Ramadi was horrible for young men that never had any more
aggressive physical contact with another human than on a Texas
football field.
They lost many friends. Chris became the armed services number #1
sniper of all time. Not something he was happy about, other than the
fact that in so doing, he saved a lot of American lives.
Three years ago, his wife Taya asked him to leave the SEAL teams as he
had a huge bounty on his head by Al Qaeda. He did and wrote the book
"The American Sniper." 100% of the proceeds from the book went to two
of the SEAL families who had lost their sons in Iraq .
That was the kind of guy Chris was. He formed a company in Dallas to
train military, police and I think firemen as far as protecting
themselves in difficult situations. He also formed a foundation to
work with military people suffering from PTSD. Chris was a giver not
a taker.
He, along with a friend and neighbor, Chad Littlefield, were murdered
trying to help a young man that had served six months in Iraq and
claimed to have PTSD.
Now I need to tell you about all of the blessings.
Southwest Airlines flew in any SEAL and their family from any airport
they flew into
...free of charge.
The employees donated buddy passes and one lady worked for four days
without much of a break to see that it happened.
Volunteers were at both airports in Dallas to drive them to the hotel.
The Marriott Hotel reduced their rates to $45 a night and cleared the
hotel for only SEALs and family.
The Midlothian , TX Police Department paid the $45 a night for each
room. I would guess there were about 200 people staying at the hotel,
100 of them were SEALs. Two large buses were chartered (an unknown
donor paid the bill) to transport people to the different events and
they also had a few rental cars (donated). The police and secret
service were on duty 24 hours during the stay at our hotel.
At the Kyle house, the Texas DPS parked a large motor home in front to
block the view from reporters. It remained there the entire five days
for the SEALs to congregate in and all to use the restroom so as not
to have to go in the house. Taya, their two small children and both
sets of parents were staying in the home.
Only a hand full of SEALs went into the home as they had different
duties and meetings were held sometimes on a hourly basis. It was a
huge coordination of many different events and security. Derek was
assigned to be a Pall Bearer, to escort Chris ' body when it was
transferred from the Midlothian Funeral Home to the Arlington Funeral
Home, and to be with Taya. A tough job.
Taya seldom came out of her bedroom. The house was full with people
from the church and other family members that would come each day to
help. I spent one morning in a bedroom with Chris ’ mom and the next
morning with Chad Littlefield's parents (the other man murdered with
Chris ). A tough job.
George W Bush and his wife Laura met and talked to everyone on the
Seal Team one on one. They went behind closed doors with Taya for
quite a while. They had prayer with us all. You can tell when people
were sincere and caring.
Nolan Ryan sent his cooking team, a huge grill and lots of steaks,
chicken and hamburgers. They set up in the front yard and fed people
all day long including the 200 SEALs and their families. The next day
a local BBQ restaurant set up a buffet in front of the house and fed
all once again. Food was plentiful and all were taken care of. The
family's church kept those inside the house well fed.
Jerry Jones, the man everyone loves to hate, was a rock star. He made
sure that we all were taken care of. His wife and he were just making
sure everyone was taken care of….Class... He donated the use of Cowboy
Stadium for the services as it was determined that so many wanted to
attend.
The charter buses transported us to the stadium on Monday at 10:30 am.
Every car, bus, motorcycle was searched with bomb dogs and police. I
am not sure if kooks were making threats trying to make a name for
themselves or if so many SEALs in one place was a security risk, I
don't know. We willingly obliged. No purses went into the stadium!
We were taken to The Legends room high up and a large buffet was
available. That was for about 300 people. We were growing.
A Medal of Honor recipient was there, lots of secret service and
police and Sarah Palin and her husband. She looked nice, this was a
very formal military service.
The service started at 1:00 pm and when we were escorted onto the
field I was shocked. We heard that about 10,000 people had come to
attend also. They were seated in the stadium seats behind us. It was
a beautiful and emotional service.
The Bagpipe and drum corps were wonderful and the Texas A&M men's
choir stood through the entire service and sang right at the end. We
were all in tears.
The next day was the 200-mile procession from Midlothian , TX to
Austin for burial. It was a cold, drizzly, windy day, but the people
were out. We had dozens of police motorcycles riders, freedom riders,
five chartered buses and lots of cars. You had to have a pass to be
in the procession and still it was huge. Two helicopters circled the
procession with snipers sitting out the side door for protection. It
was the longest funeral procession ever in the state of Texas .
People were everywhere. The entire route was shut down ahead of us,
the people were lined up on the side of the road the entire way.
Firemen were down on one knee, police officers were holding their hats
over their hearts, children waving flags, veterans saluting as we went
by. Every bridge had fire trucks with large flags displayed from
their tall ladders, people all along the entire 200 miles were
standing in the cold weather. It was so heartwarming. Taya rode in
the hearse with Chris ' body so Derek rode the route with us. I was
so grateful to have that time with him.
The service was at Texas National Cemetery . Very few are buried there
and you have to apply to get in. It is like people from the Civil War,
Medal of Honor winners, a few from the Alamo and all the historical
people of Texas . It was a nice service and the Freedom Riders
surrounded the outside of the entire cemetery to keep the crazy church
people from Kansas that protest at military funerals away from us.
Each SEAL put his Trident (metal SEAL badge) on the top of Chris '
casket, one at a time. A lot hit it in with one blow. Derek was the
only one to take four taps to put his in and it was almost like he was
caressing it as he did it. Another tearful moment.
After the service Governor Rick Perry and his wife, Anita, invited us
to the governor's mansion. She stood at the door, greeted each of us
individually, and gave each of the SEALs a coin of Texas . She was a
sincere, compassionate, and gracious hostess.
We were able to tour the ground floor and then went into the garden
for beverages and BBQ. So many of the Seal team guys said that after
they get out they are moving to Texas . They remarked that they had
never felt so much love and hospitality. The charter buses then took
the guys to the airport to catch their returning flights. Derek just
now called and after a 20 hours flight he is back in his spot, in a
dangerous land on the other side of the world, protecting America .
We just wanted to share with you, the events of a quite emotional, but
blessed week.
Punch-line:
To this day, no one in the White House has ever acknowledged Chris Kyle!
However, the President can call some sport person and congratulate him
on announcing to the world that he is gay??
What is happening to our society, our honor and our pride??
Please, keep this moving!
IN GOD WE TRUST
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