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What are you trying to accomplish? I share an empowering message of personal accountability and resilience that is specific my baseball team. You distort my message to create a strawman as if it was a one-size fits-all approach in all circumstances. You try to divert the discussion away from personal accounability and appeal to empathy without addressing accountability merits. Sharing this story isn't even about me. Yet you attack my character rather than viewpoints. You call me ignorant to those in need while completely ignoring that I'm actually volunteering time and resources for those I'm directly helping.

Change the sport to soccer, running, or wrestling. These are more common than water in some places. It is not the umpires fault you lose.

I watched that match in Texas. PD3 threw AB around and made short work of it. PD3 was much bigger than AB at the time...

This is a competitive team full of motivated kids that I volunteerly coach. I've donated countless hours and a few thousand dollars. Second, NO EXCUSES

Yes, and yes. As a car runs out of gas, a person runs out of patience. Discussing empathy and compassion for disrespectful people does drain the patience.

You make this post and don't understand where clown emojis come from? People might feel some responses are a bit level 1 childish and not see a need to engage. From Child to Adult. School is boring. School is boring because we just sit and listen all day. School is boring because we just sit and listen all day. I'd rather go on an adventure and learn about topics that interest me. School is boring because we just sit and listen all day. I'd rather go on an adventure and learn about topics that interest me, like how to hit a blast double. Blast doubles are so... manly! I want to hear your insights precisely because they are so different from mine. I just ask that you make an effort to have a meaningful conversation so that your ideas are considered more. Here, you are asking questions again that, with self-reflection, you would already identify and understand.

It is exhausting to answer so many questions continuously..., but list any three pressing questions you want here and now, and I'll get to them. If the clown emojis bother you, listen to the advice. Engage constructively, acknowledge valid viewpoints, admit when wrong, and give reasoned arguments/evidence when persistently dismissing opposing viewpoints. Pull your pants up, tighten your belt, iron your shirt, make your bed, and adult up.

Show effort to have an informed opinion and a healthy discussion will occur.

My boy's baseball team lost an exciting close game in the tournament. The umpires made a few atrocious calls that went against us and the boys were upset. After the game, I did my best Cael speech about gratitude, and how loss hurt, but we'd move past this and forget about it quickly. The I asked why we lost. The answers were unanimous: "the umpires." No! What opportunities did you miss at bat? Where can you improve your fielding? Did you make any baserunning mistakes? These are the areas where we can make a difference, regardless of the calls made on the field. PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY My 11U team is used batting against 50 mph rather than 63 mph. They are used to big hits that go 200 feet, not 270 feet! We went 3-1 against 12U teams this weekend. Not bad.

You ask a question without answering, where Ghandi is common knowledge to some, and imply non-violence was their ticket to freedom. Questions are asked in return, without being answered, implying there was violence to the story. You evade the questions. You almost nailed it here. I know there is more to the story, and your understanding skims the surface. I don't want to tell you that you are wrong; I want you to rebut with facts or increase your understanding. This is an excellent point that you must ask yourself first. What evidence was presented with the implication that India became free without guns? Besides the USA's role in WW2... charter... there was violent Indian resistance (Subhas Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh - more) I really value your input. It'd be awesome to see well-informed opinions and evidence more often.

RL from the GWN - your behavior contradicts your action. You open this discussion by calling anyone who disagrees with masks as a whiny selfish bastard that needs a swift kick in the ass. In other threads, you describe people as dogs that need to be put down and do more name calling in the fall of Minneapolis.

An over simplification. During the American Revolution, citizens were encouraged to own and use firearms in defense efforts. Privateers, citizen-owned ships armed with cannons, were encouraged to fight too. Meanwhilein in India... there was this Battle of Plassey in 1757 where 800 Brits and 2000 local defeated 50,000 Bengals. Guns were part of that. Time passed with other occurrences... peaceful and non peaceful. Then the Brits wanted the Americans to enter WW2. Before the Americans engaged, they pushed the Brits to sign the Atlantic Charter... including that all people had the right to self-determination. After the US entered and helped kick ass with their guns, the dismantling of colonism was enabled. The Brits were not motivated to free India but the quit India Ghandi movements and economy and charter all helped to make that happen. If India citizens and military had guns like the US had guns... they wouldn't had been as easy to colonoize. And while India did achieve freedom eventually through peaceful measures, it can thank the US guns for enabling the circumstance of their success. Pehaps if the Brits never had guns (ban guns everywhere)... colonism wouldn't had been easy... I don't know... controlling weaker parties has always been a thing. This is why the 2nd ammendment is so important. The wisdom of the past is important! "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776 "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787 "To disarm the people...[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them." - George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adooption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788 "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops." - Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787 "The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance ofpower is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves." - Thomas Paine, "Thoughts on Defensive War" in Pennsylvania Magazine, July 1775 "The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." - Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788 "On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823

Look bud, all you have to do is show and the food is cooked for you. Aint that grand? One question implies its answer. Why did it take two centuries for India to gain its freedom in relation to the USA?

TL;DR: the answers to those questions do not support your India comment.

Please do some research and come back to us with a one pager on India. When did India fall under British control and how did that occur? When did the USA become independent of British control? Why did it take two centuries for India to gain its freedom in relation to the USA? What impact did the American Revolution have on British colonism and how it managed others like India? What impact did the USA have on India gaining its freedom?

If there were team championships but not individual championships, yes.

For me, Thanksgiving is a time for families and friends to come together, enjoy a meal, and express gratitude for the blessings in their lives. It's expected that everyone attending our Thanksgiving gathering participates in the tradition of giving thanks for at least one thing. Those who choose not to participate, except for say illness, would seem rude. I wouldn't know because everyone has always participated in the tradition. Losing my father at a young age put me in severe depression and I always managed to find something, however small, to be thankful for. Grattitude couples well with Personal Accountability... for emotional resilience, personal growth, and well-being. In my house we expect both!

Thank you for sharing. I am thinking about a PSU wrestler winning the championship and thanking god or coaches for helping them get there. The coaches supported the wrestler along the way. Sure, the national anthem represents freedom, bravery, perserverence... While it doesn't directly talk about honoring the military, I am grateful for the military's sacrifices because they enable the values... similar to how coaches help the wrestler succeed. Note: Francis Scott Key must have been a PSU guy. His fourth verse talks about justice and trusting in God. My deceased father (Air Force) and father-in-law (Army) do not like standing to be honored for their service because they were not deployed. They support honoring the men that fought. My first cousin (Marine) is uncomfortable with public recognition period. He tolerates being recognized because he did fight and lose men. Will you expand on the second question pondering? Please say more about how honoring the military's sacrafice implies the country is for them. The suggestive law has us face the flag, not the military. It's just good people that pay respect to how the military did/does protect enable the country's values. If I'm at a Thanksgiving where everyone is expected to say something they are thankful for... and somebody doesn't... um what entitlement they think they have to the benefits... what ungrateful jerks...

Actions will always speak louder than words.

The US military provides Peace through Power. I don't have to like it to appreciate it.

Distinction. I do not find 'others' as disgusting, rather I find 'some behaviors' disgusting.

What are you talking about. I agreed with you.

What would happen if the public lost all respect for the military? It would result in less volunteers, unity, identity, morale, and pysch. The protectors stop protecting. The Michigan guy removes your freedom. Calling someone out does have negative consequences to the weak-minded. Boo hoo. I'm not talking about calling people out to be mean. No, it is to influence the positive change. Wash your hands after using the bathroom. Stop wiping your boogers on the wall and peeing on the floor. Pick up the trash on the ground. Walk your dog. Meet your deadline. Quit talking and start doing. Show respect. (OMG the negative consequences... sheesh).

In Public - because of the law where it exists and otherwise due to that community's expectation. The next time you go to a public event where the anthem is played, please assess how many people are standing and facing the flag. Compare that to how many are screwing off. Tell me again its a shrinking minority? No, the jerkish minority is increasing but remains an outlier to the respectful majority.

Do you even try to comprehend what and why something is communicated? Bud, you missed the mark here. Who said it is about me? I take offense on behalf of those who sacraficed for the whole. It isn't personal. I don't need solace or agreement. Who is committing acts of violence and what is that violence? How do you think I am trying to 'fix', who is going to fix, and how will they fix? My point is to inform why the anthem matters and to let it be known that those who disrespect it are jerks.