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japple

(9,838 posts) Sat May 26, 2018, 04:39 PM May 2018

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Tammy Duckworth posted this picture on twitter. It is the best post I've seen in several days. [View all]

"One day, our nation’s flag will drape my coffin, just as it did my Dad’s and will my husband’s and brother’s. I will always stand on these legs for the flag and anthem, but it was ALSO my honor to defend people’s right to free speech..... including those who choose to #TakeAKnee to express outrage at the glaring disparity in how Americans of different races are treated"

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Tammy Duckworth posted this picture on twitter. It is the best post I've seen in several days. [View all] japple May 2018 OP

I read...then stared...then read again...then stared again. ret5hd May 2018 #1

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe May 2018 #2

You're welcome. I almost didn't post it as I felt sure everyone would have seen it by now. japple May 2018 #3

It was posted before, murielm99 May 2018 #4

I am proud of your senator, too, muriel. Being from Georgia, we can't be japple May 2018 #12

I liked this response from Senator Duckworth Uncle Joe May 2018 #5

Run, Tammy, run! For President!!! Squinch May 2018 #6

If she doesn't I would hope she'd get much consideration for VP rurallib May 2018 #10

Perfect. oasis May 2018 #7

Remembering her GOP opponent ... left-of-center2012 May 2018 #8

Walsh also said Haggis for Breakfast May 2018 #22

Don't forget this famous response in her debate with senator kirk before she took his job: mucifer May 2018 #26

She is wicked smart. kag May 2018 #29

Powerful. nt Honeycombe8 May 2018 #9

This is what America is supposed to be about. Pepsidog May 2018 #11

Go Senator Duckworth! Who among us can criticize her right to hold those hard won beliefs? FailureToCommunicate May 2018 #13

This one post..expressing truth, has now made Tammy a national figure...now and always.. Stuart G May 2018 #14

I would love to warmfeet May 2018 #15

It reads.."A Proud Recipient of an "F" Rating From the NRA." at the top of Tammy's account Stuart G May 2018 #16

Hey! Donald had leg problems too. keithbvadu2 May 2018 #17

Powerful. H2O Man May 2018 #18

I agree. I get a flutter in my heart when I see the flag and I believe in someone-else's.... marble falls May 2018 #19

Blessings on her! mcar May 2018 #20

This should shut them up. She gave her legs for this country...... a kennedy May 2018 #21

It should, but I doubt that it will. Haggis for Breakfast May 2018 #23

No, but making a comment like that does make you mnhtnbb May 2018 #24

Wow.. she knows how to get to the Cha May 2018 #25

She should be President... Mike Nelson May 2018 #27

Imagine being preggers and walking on those stilts. Ligyron May 2018 #28