This Father Should be Very Proud of this Son (O'Keefe)
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A quote from one of the best poems ever written. James will be back, with a vengeance.
IF, by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
I grew up with this and Kipling’s “Law of the Jungle “ — shaped my entire life even now at 70– Kim is a very worthy read
As a teacher, I had my 8th grade English students memorize this every year.
Thank you, we could use thousands more of you right now. I hope we return to an era where teachers teach HOW to think (which serves you in any situation), not WHAT to think (which is INDOCTRINATION). Cheers!
Donald Trump - If
https://youtu.be/Qcd2FRF1aHU
Love this video. Gives me chills
Very appropriate for a James O’Keefe and Donald Trump too.
A great person fighting for what is right.
Just from that picture I can tell O'Keefe's father is a good working man. Dirt on the knees means he doesn't mind getting down to do manual labor. That should be a very comfortable feeling for James. He has a good father.
James grew up re-habbing an old house along with his dad and grandpa, it took years to build this house with just the 3 of them working on it, James was a kid growing up at the time, well the house caught on fire and was almost destroyed, and the 3 of them re-built the house again. So do you thing that his experience with the board was a life lesson for James not give up but to re-build, I really think so, and by having James having this picture posted on Twitter, I think it shows the people he is going to re-build.
Exactly! I don't think either of these 2 know the definition of the word "quit".
James will rebuild. Terrible what happened to him, but he'll come back bigger, better, stronger and with even more tenacity now that they tried this dirty trick. FAFO
Damn that’s a tear jerker
Two men blessed with the best in life. May God bless them with many, many more wonderful years together.
It takes a special person or one blessed by God to grow up in Bergen and not turn out to be a stereotypical NYC dbag. I've lived around here my whole life and Bergen is home to the rudest people on the planet. A tip of the hat to his dad for raising him right 👍
Aww, what a cute dad. Lucky both of them.
America is beautiful.