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Team of 8-Year-Olds Kneels for National Anthem

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Every player on the Cahokia Quarterback Club football team (8 and under) took a knee during the national anthem ahead of Sunday’s game at Little Devil’s Field in Belleville.

“One of the kids asked me if I saw (people) protesting and rioting in St. Louis. I said yes; I said, ‘Do you know why they are doing it?’” said Coach Orlando Gooden.

Coach Gooden said his player responded, “Because black people are getting killed and nobody’s going to jail.”

Gooden, who played football at Mizzou, said the kids knew about the Jason Stockley decision.

“I felt like it was a good teaching moment for me to circle the team and have a meeting,” he said. (Read more from “Team of 8-Year-Olds Kneels for National Anthem” HERE)

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Painter Does Something Unusually Patriotic While Singing the National Anthem

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In our culture war even a sports arena is a battlefield.

Whether it’s NFL’s Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling for the National Anthem or singer Denasia Lawrence’s kneeling while she sang the National Anthem, sporting events are increasingly becoming places where fans endure player protests at what should be a fun-filled occasion.

One artist did quite the opposite recently, Breitbart reports. Not only did Joe Everson sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at an East Coast Hockey League game, he did so while creating a painting based on the famous World War II photograph “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.”

The original was taken in 1945 to commemorate several Marines hoisting Old Glory after a battle in the Pacific. This painting was rendered before a hockey match between the Toledo Walleye and the Brampton Beast.

Watch the amazing and patriotic video of Joe Everson painting the iconic image while singing our National Anthem.

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Teen Told He’d Never Stand Again, Stands for First Time During National Anthem

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While football players all across America — from Pop Warner up through to the NFL — are kneeling in protest of the national anthem, South Carolina teen Wesley Baker stood up for America.

Doctors were sure he would never stand again — possibly relegated to a permanent vegetative state.

In 2013, the high school football player was walking along the highway when he was hit by an 18-wheeler. Though he survived, miraculously, Baker lost a leg and sustained heavy brain trauma, among other injuries.

But after three years of medical attention, therapy, and peerless persistence, 19-year-old Wesley Baker stood for Old Glory and the Star-Spangled Banner during Friday night’s football game at his former Conway High School.

It was the first time he’s been able to stand since his accident.

“It feels like a dream. I’ve asked God for three years… when his accident took place I said, ‘God please let my son walk again and talk again,’ and day by day, he’s shown me miracles,” his mother, Debra Phipps, told WKRC.

“Wesley, he’s worked hard, he’s lost his leg and he had a right to sit down, but now God is giving him the strength to stand up, and we all need to stand up for America,” she said. (For more from the author of “Teen Told He’d Never Stand Again, Stands for First Time During National Anthem” please click HERE)

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