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American Sniper, Amen

Read to the end and pass along, He would have made a

wonderful son to me. Thank you for your service Chris Kyle, Amen.

Chris Kyle: Amen

This is apparently from a wife of one of the Navy Seals in attendance... it makes interesting, disturbing, but hardly surprising reading.

Chris Kyle 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 because 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, how to protect 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 to the funeral... 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 SEAL's 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 meet in and so they could use the restroom there instead of the bathroom 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 because 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."

To this day, no one in the White House has ever acknowledged Chris Kyle; his service, his death, his duty, his generosity,
his caring, his life.

However, the President can call a sports person and congratulate him on his bravery for announcing to the world that he is gay.

He can say on national television that someone, a man who has committed a crime and was shot by police in the line of duty, would have made him a good son.

The SEALS have asked that you please, keep this moving if you think Chris Kyle would have made a good son.

Bob

Robert E. Lynch
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from Your presence
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation
And sustain me with a willing spirit.

Psalm 51:10-12.

7 Reasons To Vote For Marco Rubio

The 7 Reasons Marco Rubio Should Get the Republican Nomination for President

A child of immigrant parents, in the nation that invented the idea that your status at birth is no limitation on your ultimate altitude, Rubio never forgets America's exceptionalism.

I just read Sen. Marco Rubio’s “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone,” which combines stories of struggling Americans with often-innovative proposals to address our most besetting challenges in education, social welfare, health care, immigration, Social Security, Medicare and more.

The book is worth the brief time it takes to read, even if you favor some other candidate for president.

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London Walk

London walk: SOHO - the City - Covent Garden

Published on Nov 6, 2013

Walking tour from one end of central London to the other, including SOHO, Covent Garden, Fleet Street and a detailed walk through the Inns of Court, then the City, London's financial center.

We then return to the Covent Garden area and explore the shops, restaurants, Jamie's Italian, mmmhhh, and little lanes in this heart of town.

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Democrats = Socialists

I never have understood why the Republicans don’t constantly criticize Democrats as socialists. Obama clearly is a socialist. Now Hillary talks like a socialist. Republicans should constantly refer to Democrats as socialist and keep asking voters if they want the USA to continue down this socialist path that leads to a socialist utopia where everyone is equally poor, or if they want us to be a free-market capitalist country once again.

Democrats’ Progressive Agenda Is Outright Communism

With a long line of public figures who have idolized or modeled themselves after Alinsky, Mao, Lenin or Castro, the Democratic Party has been home to the despicably anti-American and their foolishly misguided followers.

Anybody who paid any attention to the party’s politics and had a modicum of historical knowledge could spot the connections.

But leftists being leftists, the DP leadership has always tried to pretend otherwise because their hold on many of the low-information voters is all based on perceptions.

Which is what makes it remarkable that the Progressive Agenda to Combat Income Inequality, a document put together by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, so clearly patterns itself after Communist Party and Socialist Party doctrine.

Even more remarkable is that de Blasio and others are trying to make this the official Democratic Party platform for the 2016 presidential election.

Welcome to Sweden

Welcome to Sweden – or what’s left of it!

Here’s what happens when politicians care more about illegal immigrants than their own citizens:

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The most gruesome rape case in Sweden's history.

This
story concerns the case of a brutal assault on a mother of two in
December 2011, for which eight Afghans are now facing charges. The
assault took place in the Mariannelund Asylum Centre and was extended
over a seven-hour ordeal. According to the men, the victim was "a bad
woman, and a whore."

The woman went into shock while the rapes
were still underway, and has since been in a heavily traumatised state.
She is now subject to nightmares and panic attacks, and lives in a
psychiatric clinic. She is bound to a wheelchair due to damages to her
abdomen, and suffers from faecal incontinence. However, the woman has
sufficiently recovered to testify in the trial. She has demanded damages
of 1,250,000 Skr.

According to additional Swedish sources,
the main perpetrator Rafi Bahaduri had already committed four other
rapes in Sweden. He was recently convicted of the violent abuse and rape
of a young girl in 2008. Unfortunately, he "cannot be deported" due to
the fact that he came to Sweden in 2002 claiming to be less than fifteen
years of age.

12 Most Distracting Extras In Movie History

Background actors, also known as extras, have one of the most important jobs on a film shoot. They contribute to the overall believability of a scene while making it easier for filmmakers to control a set or location. But sometimes, extras draw attention to themselves—either intentionally or unintentionally—and break the main focus of the scene.

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