John Middlemas, the 97-year-old World War II veteran Twitter sensation, thought he'd seen just about everything that comes with social
justice activism. But Sunday morning he posed on his knee in support of the NFL football players' freedom to protest during the National Anthem. His daughter snapped the photo and his grandson tweeted it with a simple quote from Middlemas: "Those kids have
every right to protest." Now the man who served on U.S. Navy submarines, who was floating just off the coast of Japan when the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima, who protested the... |