Group won’t show Browns games after anthem protest
Group won’t show Browns games after anthem protest
STRONGSVILLE
An Ohio Veterans of Foreign Wars post says it won’t show Cleveland Browns football games this season after a group of players knelt during the national anthem before a preseason game Monday.
VFW Post 3345 Commander Tim Zvoncheck posted a message to his Facebook page Wednesday that says the Strongsville post outside of Cleveland won’t support a group or person who “disgraces the flag or the anthem that we have fought for.”
A team spokesman responded by saying the Browns organization has a “profound” respect for the anthem, the American flag and those in the military but also respects the “freedom of personal expression.”
Nearly a dozen Browns players knelt during the anthem, including tight end Seth DeValve, the first known white NFL player to do so.
Family: Navy has recovered body of missing Ohio sailor
Megan Partlow, the fiancee of missing Ohio sailor Jacob Drake, was notified Saturday that Drake’s body has been recovered and identified. He was one of 10 sailors originally listed as missing after the USS John S. McCain collided with a merchant ship Monday in the Strait of Malacca in the South China Sea.
The Navy has not yet issued a formal release about the discovery, and a public-affairs officer could not be reached, so no other details are available.
Petty Officer Drake, 21, enlisted in the Navy right after graduating from Triad High School in Champaign County in 2013. He was an electronics technician second class.
Thousands in Barcelona march shouting ‘not afraid’
BARCELONA, Spain
Hundreds of thousands of peace marchers flooded the heart of Barcelona on Saturday shouting “I’m not afraid” – a public rejection of violence after extremist attacks that killed 15 people, Spain’s deadliest in more than a decade.
Emergency workers, taxis drivers, police and ordinary citizens who helped immediately after the attack Aug. 17 in the city’s famed Las Ramblas boulevard led the march. They carried a street-wide banner with black capital letters reading “No Tinc Por,” which means “I’m not afraid” in the local Catalan language.
The phrase has grown from a spontaneous civic answer to violence into a slogan that Spain’s entire political class has unanimously embraced.
Spain’s central, regional and local authorities tried to send an image of unity Saturday by walking behind emergency workers, despite earlier criticism that national and regional authorities had not shared information about the attackers well enough with each other.
Victims of Marine plane crash being honored at air base
NEWBURGH, N.Y.
Nine Marine Corps aviators who were killed when their New York-based transport plane crashed in Mississippi last month will be honored during a memorial service at their former air base.
The victims of the July 10 crash of the C-130 include nine crew members who served in a Marine Forces Reserve transport squadron based at Stewart Air National Guard base in Newburgh in New York’s Hudson Valley. The other seven servicemen killed in the crash included six Marines and a Navy Corpsman from an elite Marine Raider battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Associated Press