Young Garrett Bosworth reports on an incident at the Olympia rally

Garrett Bosworth, age 16, who participated with her family in the rally at Olympia this week (and who was one of the hardy band of armed civil disobedients who entered the capitol building) writes:

Dear Mr. Vanderboegh,

After meeting you, you have inspired me to put my heartfelt thoughts to pen and paper. So in the following article I attempt to explain my thoughts from January 15, on a situation I noticed as a young patriot at the rally with my friends and family. Please feel free to share yours thoughts and opinions.

Yours in Freedom, Garrett Bosworth.

The Observations of a Teenage Patriot.

On the morning of January,15,2015 I stood on the steps of my state capitol, watching people young and old, trade guns and converse about a better time when the very thought of handing your gun to a friend, would make you a felon, would seem absurd.

This being my first time in Olympia Washington, I wanted to see everything, but as I was admiring my state's capital, I observed something that would make my heart plummet into my gut. There in the capital court yard were four flags flying, My state's flag, My country's flag and a Seattle Seahawks' flag, all flown at full mast. Below them was this considerably smaller black flag, so much smaller then the others that it took me a moment to realize that it was a POW and MIA flag.

At the moment I was filled with immense disgust. A Seattle Seahawks' flag was larger and also being flown higher then a POW and MIA flag. As if a football team was more important than soldiers who gave up so much to fight for my country. People gather by the thousands to hero-worship grown men scoring touchdowns. Why don't we gather to thank our soldiers for the service? For destroying their bodies and leaving their families to defend our freedoms? No, instead we walk around sporting green and blue instead of red white and blue. We wear their jerseys and fly their flags, while our freedoms are slipping away. How ashamed my forefathers would be.

Shaking my head, I turned away in shame. When a group of fifteen to twenty real American patriots, myself included, gathered at the doors, preparing to go into the capital building with heads up and long arms in hand running up the stairs, hooting and hollering for our freedoms back, I was filled with pride for what my country used to be like and could be like again. So while others may fly their Seahawks' flag, I will fly Old Glory, so that those who want to take our freedoms know that as my family motto declares "By choice, here WE STAND." We want them to understand we will not falter and we will not comply!

Garrett Bosworth