When my president lied to me and claimed four of my comrades were murdered because of a video insulting Muslims…

When my president shipped pallets of cash to my sworn enemy…

When my president failed to identify Muslims as terrorists and Islam as an enemy of the state…

I didn’t take a knee

While my president sat by passively and enabled ISIS to emerge as a stronger force dedicated to spreading Islamic ideals by committing murder, rape and torture…

When my president identified the weather as the greatest threat to America’s safety while Muslims worldwide are murdering innocent people…

When my president allowed dictators and murderers to violate his red lines and continue to murder women and children with chemical gas…

I didn’t take a knee.

When my president claimed that a man who tried to kill another man who lawfully defended himself could be his son…

When my president defended a thug who bum-rushed law enforcement…

When my president ordered businesses to spend unnecessary funds to appease a minority of people who need mental intervention far more than they need their own toilet…

I didn’t take a knee

When my president ordered that the words “one nation under God” be removed from the pledge of allegiance…

When my president lied to me and said I could keep my doctors and my premiums would go down…

When my president spent my tax dollars in foreign lands to interfere in their elections…

I didn’t take a knee.

When my president chastised law enforcement for their actions but ignored the violence in our streets…

While my president’s insistence that pacifism and reform in numerous areas of the globe would bring peace, but instead led to the strengthening of those that seek to destroy us…

I didn’t take a knee.

When the election of my president broke barriers never thought possible in America and that event ended up being the high point of his eight years in office… . I didn’t take a knee then either.

In all that time I never disrespected our Country, our Armed Forces and Veterans, or our Nation. I remained vigilant. And I got a new President.

This was lifted off a friend who lifted if off a friend (C. Robinson) on Facebook. I do not know who put these thoughts in written form initially and I have rearranged it. The sentiments, however, remain the same.