SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - On a day when NFL teams grabbed the nation's attention by co-ordinating demonstrations during the national anthem, a 97-year-old Second World War veteran went viral with a solitary show of support for the protests.
Sunday morning of his grandfather, John Middlemas, kneeling while wearing a veteran's cap. Gilmore wrote: 鈥淢y grandpa is a 97 year-old WWII vet & Missouri farmer who wanted to join w/ those who #TakeaKnee: 'those kids have every right to protest.鈥�'
Middlemas is a farmer from Willard, Missouri. He tells the Springfield News-Leader he wanted to communicate 鈥渢hat you have to love everybody.鈥� He adds: 鈥淲e don't kill people. We want to make people live.鈥�
The image has been shared hundreds of thousands of times on Twitter.
My grandpa is a 97 year-old WWII vet & Missouri farmer who wanted to join w/ those who : "those kids have every right to protest."
鈥� Brennan Gilmore (@brennanmgilmore)
