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

[japple]

"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"

[ret5hd]

1. I read...then stared...then read again...then stared again.

Thank you Senator Duckworth.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread japple

[japple]

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

I don't use twitter, but someone posted it on facebook to a group I'm involved with and it blew me away. When I came to post it to DU, I searched to see if someone else had already posted and couldn't find anything, so I did. Crazy about Sen. Duckworth!

[murielm99]

4. It was posted before,

but I am happy to see it again.

I am proud of my Senator.

[japple]

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

proud of many things, but I am proud to be from the state that gave birth to so many great Americans, like Martin Luther King, John Lewis, Jimmy Carter, Andrew Young, Ray Charles, James Brown, Otis Redding, the Allman Bros., Oliver Hardy, Roland Hayes, Doc Holliday, Gladys Knight, Alice Walker, Joanne Woodward, Jessye Norman, Blind Willie McTell, Johnny Mercer, Howard Finster....

[Uncle Joe]

5. I liked this response from Senator Duckworth

(snip)


In January 2018, following a federal government shut down after the Senate could not agree on a funding bill, Duckworth responded to President Trump's accusations that the Democrats were putting “unlawful immigrants” ahead of the military:

“I spent my entire adult life looking out for the well-being, the training, the equipping of the troops for whom I was responsible. Sadly, this is something that the current occupant of the Oval Office does not seem to care to do — and I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger. And I have a message for Cadet Bone Spurs: If you cared about our military, you'd stop baiting Kim Jong Un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops, and millions of innocent civilians, in danger."[60]

Duckworth became the first U.S. Senator to give birth while in office in 2018.[61] Shortly afterward, rules were changed so that a Senator has the right to bring a child under one year old on the Senate floor and breastfeed them during votes.[62] The day after those rules were changed, Maile became the first baby on the Senate floor when Duckworth brought her.[62][63]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth

[Squinch]

6. Run, Tammy, run! For President!!!

[rurallib]

10. If she doesn't I would hope she'd get much consideration for VP

[oasis]

7. Perfect.

[left-of-center2012]

8. Remembering her GOP opponent ...

In 2012 her opponent, Republican Joe Walsh, said about her:
“Big deal. Wounded vet. What else has she done?”

She beat him 55% to 45%.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

22. Walsh also said

"Tammy Duckworth won't stand up for Veterans." I thought my head was going to explode.

[mucifer]

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

[kag]

29. She is wicked smart.

Just an amazing woman all the way around.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Powerful. nt

[Pepsidog]

11. This is what America is supposed to be about.

[FailureToCommunicate]

13. Go Senator Duckworth! Who among us can criticize her right to hold those hard won beliefs?

[Stuart G]

14. This one post..expressing truth, has now made Tammy a national figure...now and always..

So clear and honest, and respecting our values.....Incredible and wonderful...Yes, I am very proud that I voted for her,....

[warmfeet]

15. I would love to

have the chance to vote for her in a national election.

[Stuart G]

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

.. Hat is off to you Tammy...and to japple for posting this!!!

[keithbvadu2]

17. Hey! Donald had leg problems too.

Hey! Donald had leg problems too.

Cadet Bone Spur finally made it to VN.

[H2O Man]

18. Powerful.

Recommended.

[marble falls]

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

right to take a knee.

I'm thinking of taking a knee myself. There's too many unarmed, non-resisting black males and females being shot by cops out there and it just plain needs to be stopped. "too many." One is too many.

But I do not go to see professional sports and besides the seat and aisles are too small to give me a place to do it.

[mcar]

20. Blessings on her!

[a kennedy]

21. This should shut them up. She gave her legs for this country......

God love her. I sure do.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

23. It should, but I doubt that it will.

I recall something that the hateful, vile Ann Coulter said about Senator Max Cleland (D-GA), "Just because you fall on a hand grenade and lose three limbs doesn't make you a hero."

I hate that repulsive shrew.

[mnhtnbb]

24. No, but making a comment like that does make you

an asshole, Ann.

[Cha]

25. Wow.. she knows how to get to the

heart of the matter!

[Mike Nelson]

27. She should be President...

… she embodies what it means to be an American.

[Ligyron]

28. Imagine being preggers and walking on those stilts.

Duckworth is a real trooper.