'16 HI S Alohi Gilman (Navy Transfer)

[dad4aa]

 

[NDdomer2]

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[Irish#1]

Anyone see the letter he received? It is ridiculous! Don’t know how to post an image.

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Save it on Imgur or Photobucket, then copy the code and paste it in your reply.

In the meantime, care to share the theme of the letter?

 

[dad4aa]

I thought I linked it, is it not showing?

 

[irishnd31]

I thought I linked it, is it not showing?

It is and thank you for sharing. People are sick in the heads. Absolutely ridiculous to do this to any kid.

 

[NDdomer2]

I thought I linked it, is it not showing?

It is now thanks for sharing

 

[NDohio]

Seriously? What makes someone send something like that? I will never understand this kind of thing.

 

[Irish#1]

They must be taking that loss to Army pretty hard.

 

[tko]

Speaking of cowards, sign your names to the letter big boys. Talk is cheap.

 

[OhioIrish31]

Speaking of cowards, sign your names to the letter big boys. Talk is cheap.

THIS X 1000!

 

[dad4aa]

I doubt it was even real veterans. Probably a butthurt fan.

 

[Some Irish Bloke]

That letter is a shame to those six veterans. Disgraceful.

Young 17 and 18 year old kids are forced to make important life decisions about their future. Where to go to school (and what to study), where to work, or to enlist. Sometimes, these youngsters make the wrong decision and decide they want something else for their future. You see it with kids who change majors, who went to college, and decide they don't want the higher education or perhaps they can't afford it, and they drop out and work in trades, or maybe they enlist in the military. It is asking a lot of a teenager to make a major decision, have 4 years to figure it out, and then live the rest of their lives accordingly. There are going to be MANY who decide they want to take a different path while they still can.

How six individuals who have served (presumably honorably) can send that letter anonymously and try to shame a young adult for having a change of heart that will otherwise drastically shape their future, is quite shameful, in my opinion.

We are fortunate to have a period in our country where we have a volunteer military. It wasn't too long ago when we had a draft and any young man could receive a letter and be told to report to duty, life uprooted. And we are blessed to have vets who have defended, and active military who continue to defend, our liberties.

It sounds like these six individuals let their football fandom lose sight of that.

Shame on them.

 

[stlnd01]

Anonymous letters calling someone a coward are very brave indeed.

Also, as a point of fact. How many people have graduated from a service academy, done their five years in the military, and gone on to play in the NFL? In the modern era does that even happen?

Also, Gilman had like 19 tackles in the Clemson game. He did get beat deep on one of their TD throws, but that game was hardly his fault.

 

[stlnd01]

That letter is a shame to those six veterans. Disgraceful.

Young 17 and 18 year old kids are forced to make important life decisions about their future. Where to go to school (and what to study), where to work, or to enlist. Sometimes, these youngsters make the wrong decision and decide they want something else for their future. You see it with kids who change majors, who went to college, and decide they don't want the higher education or perhaps they can't afford it, and they drop out and work in trades, or maybe they enlist in the military. It is asking a lot of a teenager to make a major decision, have 4 years to figure it out, and then live the rest of their lives accordingly. There are going to be MANY who decide they want to take a different path while they still can.

Also, if I recall Gilman's case right, he went to Navy being told he could play in the NFL and then serve in the Navy. While he was there, the Pentagon changed the policy. Correct? He didn't just bail on Navy because he thought he could do better at Notre Dame.

 

[GowerND11]

That letter is the ultimate in cowardice, butthurt, and the military entitlement that you cannot question or you're automatically unpatriotic.

 

[Some Irish Bloke]

Also, if I recall Gilman's case right, he went to Navy being told he could play in the NFL and then serve in the Navy. While he was there, the Pentagon changed the policy. Correct? He didn't just bail on Navy because he thought he could do better at Notre Dame.

Correct. Keenan Reynolds is the last player who was granted a waiver to pursue the NFL draft in 2016, and they changed the policy in 2017 prior to the draft in April '17.

They have to serve a minimum two years before they can pursue the NFL.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/us-military-service-academies-professional-sports/index.html

 

[Southside Sully]

Speaking of cowards, sign your names to the letter big boys. Talk is cheap.

This 100%

 

[StPaul_Irish]

Speaking of cowards, sign your names to the letter big boys. Talk is cheap.

^^^
THIS

What a bunch of P*$$Y Mother F-ERS.... I hate that crap.... MAN UP. You have the stones to say something but act like a little you know what.

I am super pissed about this, more then I should be. Not just because he is a ND man, but because as a human being.

He is a good kid, its the Navel Academy that did this.... Send the letter to them you Dbag.


Sorry.... I feel better now

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

I wouldn't get hung-up on the "veterans" that wrote this, because...

I 100% believe it was probably some 13 year old on NDNation.

 

[GowerND11]

I wouldn't get hung-up on the "veterans" that wrote this, because...

I 100% believe it was probably some 13 year old on NDNation.

Maybe, but even those toads are peeved about it.

 

[Rack Em]

^^^
THIS

What a bunch of P*$$Y Mother F-ERS.... I hate that crap.... MAN UP. You have the stones to say something but act like a little you know what.

I am super pissed about this, more then I should be. Not just because he is a ND man, but because as a human being.

He is a good kid, its the Navel Academy that did this.... Send the letter to them you Dbag.


Sorry.... I feel better now

 

[NDty9]

"Sincerely, Six Veterans and College Football Fans"....... ?????

WHAT?!?!?!! hahahahahaah talk about no credibility !!!

Bunch of F***ing CHUMPS

 

[zelezo vlk]

Ehhh this whole thing gives me a "fake" vibe, like so much other stuff I've seen on the Internet. I don't know anything about Gilman to make me think this isn't real, but the Internet has left me scarred.

 

[irishff1014]

That's bullcrap. He has been nothing but a class act since he has been here. And i am sure he was before here at Navy too.

 

[NDty9]

Ehhh this whole thing gives me a "fake" vibe, like so much other stuff I've seen on the Internet. I don't know anything about Gilman to make me think this isn't real, but the Internet has left me scarred.

Are you insinuating that he made this himself, or had something to do with itt????

 

[ACamp1900]

Speaking of cowards, sign your names to the letter big boys. Talk is cheap.

No shit... “you can’t be a non-conformist and not drink coffee...”

 

[ab2cmiller]

Just another blatant motivational technique from BK.

 

[NDdomer2]

I'd bet it's past teammates upset that he left

 

[NDdomer2]

Are you insinuating that he made this himself, or had something to do with itt????

I think he explained himself pretty clearly

 

[TDHeysus]

I wouldn't get hung-up on the "veterans" that wrote this, because...

I 100% believe it was probably some 70 year old on NDNation.

FIFY