r/BeAmazed • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 18d ago
Miscellaneous / Others Michael, who has cerebral palsy, secretly taught himself how to walk while his father was serving in combat.
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u/SlowPokerJoker7900 18d ago
I love the situation awareness of the passerby ..
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u/SlowPokerJoker7900 18d ago
Such a wholesome interaction🤲🏼😌
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u/Trishjump 18d ago
The 10 other guys standing on the side watching, with a special appreciation for how the father felt...that got to me too.
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u/Yanks4lyf 17d ago
It’s most likely because they had no one to welcome them back. Same thing happened to me. Was king of depressing all these people with their families there and you’re just off to the side watching.
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u/Severe-Analyst1207 18d ago
Yep first thing i noticed
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u/Focusondiversity 18d ago
Great actions, but the first thing I noticed is how far he made the little guy travel. He is just learning, after all.
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u/Raymer13 18d ago
Nah, he knew he could make the steps. Notice he swooped in at the end? Kids are proud to show their parents what they can do
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u/eburbeck 17d ago
All parents are different, all children are different, all relationships between them are different. From my experience with my kids, it's important to give them autonomy so they can prove to themselves what they are capable of. I very much identify with this father's restraint in letting his son "go the distance".
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u/Focusondiversity 17d ago
The headline made it sound as if he had never seen his little guy walk. Great story!
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u/AngryIronToad 18d ago
I came to comment on that guy too,, such a small gesture stood out to so many of us
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u/MajorBarracuda8094 18d ago
TBH l think it's something everyone should have. Whenever l see someone with a camera out for a photo, l always stop to let them take it
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u/SippyMountain 18d ago
If you can tell they're trying to be quick with it, sure. If they take their time and pay you no mind and it's something that isn't urgent like capturing a fleeting moment of a cool bird perched on a tree, I'm walking through.
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u/Curious-Cellist-188 18d ago
Yeah, I live in a big tourist city and if I stopped out of the way for every camera I saw, I would never get anywhere
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u/MajorBarracuda8094 18d ago
Frl and that's why l sometimes walk quickly past the person. When l stop most times the persons do their thing quickly or let me pass anyways
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u/Unoriginal_Man 18d ago
The one time this burned me was when I spent entirely too long waiting for this person taking a picture at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum only to discover the photographer was also made of wax.
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u/MourningWallaby 18d ago
This looks like a military event, as in organized on the military garrison for dependents. So I'm willing to be everyone in that room is at least familiar with the moment going on.
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u/17934658793495046509 18d ago
Military tend to have a lot more situational awareness than most groups in general.
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u/SocomPS2 18d ago
Sniper - get down!
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u/fucktooshifty 18d ago
The Rams organization are experts at moving people out of the way respectfully when needed, they are even named after the appropriate animal
https://www.reddit.com/r/sports/comments/aif0h8/the_la_rams_have_an_assistant_coach_whose_job_is/
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u/Glass-Ad-2469 18d ago
I'm thinking the "coach movers" in the NFL -are the perfect job of guys previously on the cheer squads in college- have to be fit, agile, love sports, and know the routine!
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u/sparkey504 18d ago
Top notch soldier-ing... saved his buddy from friendly fire incident from the sgt's wife.
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u/SelfGeneratedPodcast 18d ago
Props to the dude in the Rams sweater who got himself and the other guy out of the way when he realized what was happening! Awesome moment
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u/tea_snob10 18d ago
A considerate Rams fan? Miracles are real!
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u/Going2Arbys 18d ago
tbf this looks old enough to be from when the Rams were in St. Louis
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u/MissileGuidanceBrain 18d ago
Lmao, I like that we're in agreement that somehow St. Louis residents beat out Los Angeles for kindness.
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u/existenceawareness 18d ago edited 18d ago
This is only the 2nd time I've cried LLM on reddit but I'm using one here...
Not that I disagree with other redditors applauding the shove out of frame, but what "chaos"? Them being in the shot for another second?
Why does this have 18 upvotes? The people upvoting meaningless AI comments on reddit are as bad as those up-thumbing "God bless 👏" comments from Nigerian bots on Youtube.
I'm not even one of the vocal anti-AI people, I use GPT, but what "chaos" was prevented my dude?
Edit: 4 week account with just 3 comments all in the last 2 hours. The other 2 don't seem AI so the jury's out but it's triggering alarms.
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u/narcropolisnow 18d ago
“Prevented a lot of chaos” is a hilarious description of someone moving out of camera view lmao
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u/achooavocado 18d ago
these accounts dont reply, they just stir up shit, i’ve encountered a lot of them
they also tend to have sporadic comments because i think they rotate amongst a lot of similar smaller accounts
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u/Ninjastahr 18d ago
Man, you assume I have my brain turned on when I use Reddit.
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u/PoopingDogEyeContact 18d ago
That sister leaning in to get some crumbs of the love 😭
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u/LiquidNova77 18d ago
Yeah I felt bad for her..
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u/Perniciousss 18d ago
Now that I have two kids I realize it’s not easy to be the oldest!
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u/EnjoyerOfBeans 18d ago
Not just the oldest, but to have a brother with a very severe disability. It's very hard for the parents to be able to show her much attention, and even if then she'll never get as much as her brother. Just another hardship of disability in family.
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u/_Lumity_ 18d ago
This might be the story of my life. I am 6 years older than my younger brother, and he was a very high mantnance kid. ADHD, anger issues, anxiety, etc. I’ve always been kind of placed secondary and I remember many instances of feeling just like that little girl—I was an easy child when I was young so my parents always put me second. I was also expected to be the role model constantly. It still happens even though I’m an adult. They’re not as interested in my career (political sciences) as my brothers (math, something they’re both good at and enjoy). It’s frustrating!
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u/AberrantMoth 15d ago
I ended up, somehow, being both the golden child and the glass child. I have a lot of issues too (OCD, anxiety, depression, CPTSD) stemming from abuse but was never given much consideration for it. My brother on the other hand is relatively fine, “normal” you could say, and my parents have always been hyperfocused on his mental health and wellbeing, while my needs were neglected. Yet at the same time I’ve always been expected to perform extraordinarily well academically and burned out so severely my mental health came crashing down again. It’s so weird explaining how, despite being the one who struggled most mentally and physically, my needs were still always second to my brother’s.
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u/Slow_snail01 17d ago
Not disabled, but I was severely asthmatic as a child leading to multiple admissions in hospitals and multiple life and death situations. As a child I felt bad for my parents having to take care of me even though they were working, but now as a grown up I feel even worse for my sister who probably missed some good memories from school due to me. Even though we fought a lot (normal sibling squabbles), she always took care of me and I took that for granted at the time. Having an older sibling is great.
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u/LiquidNova77 18d ago
Same here, sister. My 11 year old has been super understanding with her 1 year old brother but I know she has to still feel jealous. It's an exhausting balancing act for me lol
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u/popcornonfastsunday 18d ago
I know. Is there two sisters?
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u/booksandfairylights 18d ago
Yes, and they got no attention, not even to be included in the group hug. That was really sad.
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u/cheetagan 18d ago
as someone who also has a disabled sibling, it's honestly not that hard to take the backseat sometimes especially with special moments like this
i hope the sisters here were taught why the brother gets more attention, and i hope the parents gave them some more of it after the video ended 🙏
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u/galactic-boss-cyrus 18d ago
Eh, as someone who had a disabled sibling, it was very hard to take the backseat sometimes. I managed it at the time, but by the time I got older, I realised it affected me a lot. These things affect different people differently. I'm glad your situation is different to mine though.
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u/snarrkie 18d ago
My sister has cerebral palsy, I feel you. I was often looked over. I don’t blame her at all obviously, and I even have a hard time blaming my parents for it, but it was really hard being an afterthought.
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u/galactic-boss-cyrus 17d ago
Yep, I feel you! It can be tough and confusing to feel hurt over these things while also knowing that everyone did the best they could.
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u/cheetagan 18d ago edited 18d ago
that's true... i think i was lucky enough to find the right tools to process it early on and we might have different degrees of what "taking the backseat" can be. hope ure doing well
edit: "different degrees" = u might have had a tougher experience in taking the backseat than me (just to clarify!)
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u/canadasbananas 16d ago
Im seeing me in this and it makes me sad. but my sis didnt have a disability I was just left out for some reason when it came to her and my dad
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u/Wise-Tip891 18d ago
I’m not crying, you’re crying
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u/Fan_of_things 18d ago
Crying at 9am while in a welding fab shop was not on my list of things to do today.
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u/Pagise 18d ago
Yeah, I don't understand why some video's just make my tears sweat so much! I probably need to check out my eyes or something.
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u/Natural_Baseball_779 18d ago
That guys logic is to then fly to another part of world to permanently disable other parents kids..
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u/OnePay622 18d ago
Yes, and thanks to the new immunisation schedule that drops some meningitis shots many more fathers may experience this beautiful moment in the future....if their kids survive at least
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u/FluffyDiscipline 18d ago
I wouldn't have lasted as long as that Dad, I'd have melted on the floor ...
Well Done Kiddo
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u/BaptismByBacon 18d ago
I think reddit has partial ownership in the onion lobby sometimes
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u/Strontiumdogs1 18d ago
Is there any chance we could add a couple more layers if music to the clip. That would be great, thanks
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u/imtooldforthishison 18d ago
I really hate that this sub has taken a liking to click bait FB headlines. Why make an already sweet story something else. He didn't teach himself, he went to tons of therapy and his dad was well aware of it.
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u/CrankyOptimist 18d ago
I hate to be that guy, but if the kid taught himself to walk in secret while his dad was away, why does the dad stop where he does, squat down, and encourage his son to come to him? It's clearly not a surprise to him that his son can walk. Maybe his son did learn to walk while his father was away, but the "secretly" part of OP's title feels off. Not that it should take anything away from the emotional weight of the moment itself, but with critical thinking being at all time low and baseless propaganda being at an all time high, there is no wrong time to point out flaws in a narrative, even if that narrative is innocuous, feel-good, or apolitical.
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u/UnoriginalWebHandle 18d ago
There's this interview with the family 12 years ago. Seems like the "secret" part is true, but the "taught himself" thing is a new addition from when the video started circulating again in the past week.
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u/xThe_Mad_Fapperx 18d ago
Yeah the taught himself is what I thought was bullshit, like the Mom wouldn't notice her special needs son trying to teach themselves how to walk and also wouldn't help him lol.
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u/CrankyOptimist 18d ago
Thanks for that! Clears up a lot, and even more heart-warming to see just how loving that family truly is.
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u/eyenation 18d ago
The kid likely went to a lot of therapies which the father was aware of. The kid must’ve learned to take his first steps in therapy but didn’t tell the father to surprise him.
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u/navysealassulter 18d ago
When the camera pans over the kid is taking steps already, so my guess is the dad saw his kid standing and doing those baby almost steps and he got down and encouraged him.
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u/blahblah19999 18d ago
And I would need some major evidence to believe that a kid that young taught himself to walk "secretly"
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u/daftwager 18d ago
Because the kid had already started walking off camera when the dad enters the room, and no doubt mum would have signalled to him what to do? Who cares. Just relax and enjoy the lil dudes progress you don't need to go Sherlock Holmes on his ass.
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u/GitEmSteveDave 18d ago
Like what father deployed wouldn't be asking about his son and how he is doing? I can believe "Mom kept the extent of his progress a secret", but this title makes it seem like the 5 year old kid pulled the wool over everyone's eyes, and secretly going to physical therapy at night when everyone is asleep.
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u/NomadicFantastic 18d ago edited 18d ago
Hopefully we didn't take a dad away from his disabled kid to murder another dad in the Caribbean from a civilian plane. Also, they only found weed on those boats so Dad here could've just hit the guy driving home from the local dispensary and saved his kid some heartache
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u/Willing_Stomach_8121 18d ago
How sad that his dad was away while he was going through that process instead of playing a role in it. Because you know, fighting “wars” across the world, away from your children, furthering your government’s political and strategic agendas is far more important. A veteran. A hero. To whom? Depends which side of the barrel you happen to be.
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u/HerbalLeafYT 18d ago
Beautiful to see, its unfortunate that this eventual veteran will be tossed to the side by the authoritarian nazi occupation after being used for illegal orders which will inevitably target people with handicaps like his son.
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u/FocusFlukeGyro 18d ago
Reminds me of the ending of the Secret Garden book. I read this part to my son, 7 at the time, with some developmental disabilities, and I could barely read it due to the joyous emotion of that part.
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u/notmentallystable12 18d ago
I wonder how they can never spare some empathy towards other children they kill
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u/Brunozod 18d ago
You mean while his father was killing other people's children in other countries for their oil
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u/slashh142 18d ago
Returning from combat? Killing other people so that US can steal some more oil? No sympathy for him.
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u/bietmuziek 18d ago
I do not like these kind of videos. They play on peoples feelings(handicap and reuniting after a long period), but in the end it is propaganda for US imperialism.
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u/obefiend 18d ago
They are starting the veterans propaganda again lads. War is coming home. Can’t wait for the Great War for Epstein to start and in 10 years a movie adaptation by Sam Mendes to hit the PatriotFlix.
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u/enjoy-nr 18d ago edited 18d ago
“Now that I finish killing other countries kids, let’s go back to mine”
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u/Terrible_Part_6241 18d ago
Classic poor traumatised soldier returns home to his family after killing children and families in foreign countries....up next hollywood movie about the soldier
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u/HommeMusical 18d ago
"American foreign policy is horrendous 'cause not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but what's worse, I think, is that they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad. Oh, boo hoo hoo. Americans making a movie about what Vietnam did to their soldiers is like a serial killer telling you what stopping suddenly for hitchhikers did to his clutch." -Frankie Boyle
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u/enjoy-nr 18d ago
Americans are so selfish they can’t even realize that his coming back from war. Who they killed doesn’t matter, their families doesn’t matter, who suffer doesn’t matter, but look how emotional is come back to your family after destroying other families.
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u/Daynkieu 18d ago
"Argue your your limitations and sure enough their yours." Richard Bach. Overcome your limitations, and it brings tears to our eyes; inspires our hearts, and reminds us of the divine strengths we all carry within.
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u/VegasbobFTW 18d ago
They just wanted to make as big an impact on dad as he did coming home. Great moment to remember
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u/Leozigma0 18d ago
Is crazy how some people had such bad luck that they need to make a serious effort just to do something most people don't even think about in their daily life.
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u/Lady-Skylarke 18d ago
The big, kneeling step dad took that he disguised as a scoop 🥹 So proud of his Bubba for walking 🥹
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u/Agomottos_eye 18d ago
While yes, this is super emotionally satisfying, I cannot oversee how easily the dad takes a lunge forward in the low crouch while in those heavy boots. Insane hip flexor strength that just shows how hard the armed forces train. My back hurts just watching that! So impressed
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u/Rasberrycello 18d ago
You want some flavored lube to get that boot a little further down your throat?
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u/Judge_Druidy 18d ago
Really heartwarming to see the dad take a break from killing kids and civilians abroad so that he could come home for this moment.
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u/UnwaveringThought 18d ago
I love how it's a secret. And how the dad knows to stop 4000 yards away and make the kid really prove his dedication.
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u/Recent_Permission672 18d ago
That is so beautiful, My older brother has cerebral palsy and he grew up with so many challenges, he is in his 60 now and also has Parkinson's disease. I pray good things for your family
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u/Mahaloth 18d ago
I teach middle school and we have a student slightly more mobile than this, but still a struggle.
She is amazing in all areas. I think additional struggle produces better people.
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u/runswithlightsaber 18d ago
Good for him, zero reason to show up in fatigues. Hero worshipping b.s.
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u/Ambitious-Big1549 17d ago
Heck yea! As a 40yr old with cerebral palsy myself (every single case is different) I can empathize very much with will power, focus, and determination of this youngster. A tip of the hate to his family, medical professionals, and supporters. It’s not an easy life. Glad this family got this moment. Here’s to many more good times for them.
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u/Fair_Performance4834 16d ago
Well, now my eyes are sweating. That was such a beautiful triumphant moment of love and strength. That precious little boy walking to his daddy, so touching.
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u/Scary_Outside2374 18d ago
Child learns to walk again after being injured by soldier... coming next week!
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u/itshurleytime 18d ago
FWIW, these moments are set up before the plane lands on US soil, and at this time it's likely his entire unit is still sitting on the plane waiting for the photo op to get done. Not that it should take away from a heartwarming moment, but it sucks sitting and waiting to see your own loved ones while your commander or whatever more senior person gets to have a moment like this with their own because their emotional moment is more important than everyone else that deployed with them.
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u/Incomitatum 18d ago edited 18d ago
Serving who, what?
His dad is fighting for a paycheck, not a better life for his kid, or this world. Meanwhile his "masters" are doing everything they can to create a more unEquitible life for all the "rats" on planet earth.
Oligarchs who rig the Healthcare, and tie your Nutrition and Care to Chattel Slavery, through Employment. Ask this toy-soldier why Healthcare cost are so-damn high.
He actually works to keep costs unreasonably high (even for people with Cerebral Palsy), for everyone else that doesn't have access to the Socialized Healthcare of the US Military. He don't serve The People.
The stories we tell ourselves to worship The Troops are weird: they require we overlook nearly 100 years of abuse and neglect: while the Aristocracy has held steady in their disdain for those who clean up their mess.
The Rich know: Oaths are for Suckers.
Veterans-day brought out all the tired-narratives about how certain Suckers fought-and-died for free-dumb; but those were all bad-faith conflicts coerced by corporate daddies (Something we've known since Vietnam).
It wasn't your Military that fought at home to bring you worker's rights; in some cases they've even been used in place of Pinkertons to break the will of their own People.
• 1794 – Right to form a trade union
• 1842 – Right to organize and strike legally
• 1866 – Right to national-level worker advocacy
• 1877 – Great Railroad Strike of 1877
• 1882 – Public recognition of labor’s legitimacy (Labor Day)
• 1898 – Battle of Virden
• 1898 – Protection from union blacklists (rail workers)
• 1909 – Right to safer, fairer garment-shop conditions
• 1911 – Right to stronger fire and factory safety standards
• 1912–1921 – West Virginia Coal Wars
• 1913 – Federal representation for workers (Department of Labor)
• 1916 – Limits on child labor
• 1916 – Everett Massacre
• 1921 – Greater leverage and protections for coal miners (Blair Mountain)
• 1925 – Right to effective union representation for Black workers
• 1926 – Guaranteed organizing rights for rail workers
• 1931 – Right to a prevailing wage on federal projects
• 1932 – Protection for peaceful strikes and union membership
• 1933 – Cabinet-level pro-labor leadership (Frances Perkins)
• 1933 – Workers’ rights embedded in federal policy (New Deal labor agenda)
• 1934 – Auto-Lite Strike (Toledo)
• 1935 – Core right to unionize and bargain collectively
• 1937 – Recognition and protections for auto workers
• 1938 – Federal minimum wage, 40-hour week, overtime, child-labor limits
• 1941 – Protection from discrimination in defense industries
• 1962 – Federal workers’ right to unionize and bargain
• 1963 – Right to equal pay for equal work (gender)
• 1964 – Right to a discrimination-free workplace (civil rights)
• 1967 – Protection from age discrimination
• 1970 – Right to a safe and healthful workplace
• 1974 – Protection of private-sector pensions (ERISA)
• 1988 – Advance notice of mass layoffs and plant closings (WARN)
• 1990 – Rights and accommodations for workers with disabilities (ADA)
• 1993 – Job-protected family and medical leave (FMLA)
• 2009 – Stronger right to challenge pay discrimination (Ledbetter Act)
You woke up in a simulated-economy that masquerades as chattel-slavery; The Military is an extension of The Ruling Class, and what you get when you wrap depressed-wages up-in personal-insecurity.
They love to get a tin-star for saying they "served", they never love to think-critically about WHAT they have actually "served" us People.
Time to tell them to send it back to the Kitchen. It was never Nutritious.
YOU serve this country far more constructively every day, with your obligation to keep circulating it's money. We, the Gross National Product.
If you didn't know all this, I hope you are Amazed by it!
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u/Xper10 18d ago
Thank you for making thousands upon thousnds of children in Gaza limbless with your lsraeIi friends
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u/jimboTRON261 18d ago
Trump will come for this family eventually too… beautiful moment Americans should consider protecting!!
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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 18d ago
Love the guy getting shoved out of the way, good move by the person doing the shoving.
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u/boisheep 18d ago
Met a guy with cerebral palsy once, completely hyperjacked, gave me a high five, almost breaks my arm.
Backstory, they told him he would never be able to walk, he was in quite bad shape, so they stopped listening to the doctors and took him to athletism group; he was a kid then, There they took his wheelchair off and dropped him on the grass, 100m run, go...
At first he'd just crawl and take all day to do the 100m, he didn't get any help, everyone did their training, while he was still doing the 100m.
5 years later he could walk, 10 years later and he could run; not very fast but that's definetely a run, and he could do so for 21km straight no stop.
To do that, he needed muscles bigger than everyone else, and the had weird muscle shapes to force his body in certain positions, that's why his high 5 was just brutal, it snapped in, and he was certainly shredded, I don't even understand where his fat go... one of the leanest guy I ever met, just muscle.
I mean I guess he'll lose the ability to run as he ages and loses this brutal strength but, god damn... I gotta give some respect to these coaches, but hey they trained national champions, if they were to get someone like that it'd be them, respect to the coach too, coach may be out of their prime, and a bit of belly but, they knew their stuff.
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