Gene Simmons, bassist and co-lead singer for the rock band KISS, made news when he visited the Pentagon on Thursday as part of an initiative to connect the American public to the United States military.
But it was his emotional remarks about what America meant to him and his late mother that were remarkable.
“I’m a proud son of a concentration camp survivor of Nazi Germany. My mother was 14 when she was in the camps. I’m measuring my words because I’m about to break up again –,” he said, striking the podium.
“My mother just passed at 93. But if Americans could see and hear my mother talk about America, they would understand,” he said.
He shared what it was like when he first came to America as a child from Israel, not speaking a lot of English. He said his mother worked six days a week, and in the evenings, they would watch the news together.
By midnight, the three or four TV stations at that time would go off the air. But before then, they would watch a jet fly through the sky and melt into an image of the American flag. The national anthem would play, he said.
“And every time my mother saw the flag, she’d start crying,” he said. “As an eight-year-old boy, I didn’t understand why, but from my mother’s point of view, we were finally safe,” he said, choking up.
“I may have been born in the country that people throughout history have referred to as the Promised Land, but take my word for it — America is the Promised Land, for everybody. And don’t be ashamed, don’t hesitate.
“We need to teach young people to be comfortable with saying God bless America,” he said. “End of my story.”
His remarks were captured on video by McClatchy’s Tara Copp:
Simmons’ visit to the Pentagon transpired months ago. A Pentagon civilian employee met Simmons backstage at a show and invited him to visit the Pentagon if he was in the area. Simmons took him up on that offer.
Simmons’ visit highlighted the Pentagon’s #KnowYourMil initiative, which aims to educate Americans on exactly what members of the U.S. military do, and what jobs they fulfill, including everything from veterinarians to lawyers.
“What a privilege it was to meet an American icon who has such love for country, family, and our military,” said Anne K. Joiner, acting principal deputy assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs.
“We appreciate Gene and his wife, Shannon, for taking the time to visit with us and express such gratitude for the service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform.”
The #KnowYourMil initiative was launched in February 2018, amid growing concern that the U.S. military was becoming increasingly disconnected from the public it serves, which affects future recruitment and the sustainment of an all-volunteer military force.
According to a fact sheet, fewer than half of 1% of Americans serve in the military, and fewer than 15% of young adults have a parent who has served. In addition, less than 30% of 17 to 24-year-olds are eligible for military service.
More and more, military service has become a family affair, with 80% of those in uniform today having had a family member serve in the U.S. military.
Joiner said the #KnowYourMil initiative is about “connecting Americans to their military.”
“We want to create conversations that bring civilian and military communities together,” she said.
JUST A KIKE ASSHOLE TRYING TO CONVINCE YOU TO SEND YOUR SONS TO THE JEWISH MEAT GRINDER FOR SACRIFICE..
CHICKENS AND ARABS AINT ENOUGH………….
BAM!
oh paleeeeze…..let me get my violin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMerMiH__pA
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This jackass sucked as a musician and a human being
Not that I expect anything less from this Jew POS
Should have faded away back in the 80’s
“My mother just passed at 93. But if Americans could see and hear my mother talk about America, they would understand,” he said.
Your mama more than likely taught you that it’s the goy that will do the dirty work you parasitic life drainers don’t want to do because you think you’re some special breed. This is what your mother would be saying about America.
HA! Katie, I saw this clip of Gene and his son standing in front of his Lincoln Navigator with the hood open. His son asked him what all that stuff in there was, Gene replied, you don’t have to worry about that, that is what goys are for.
all of the above and he’s u g l y too
HE REMINDS ME OF HOWARD STERN……(another chicken swinger)
Gene Simmons is a Zionist Jew piece of shit.
LOL!
If he was to be beat down, and run through with a cheap old Montgomery Wards guitar, I’d be smilin 🙂
Gene Simmons is one of the most immoral people ever in R&R.The man was a fornicating freak whose opinion means zero!
Never liked KISS, and, according to a Rolling Stone rock and roll history trope, this dude was a HS teacher in the Bronx! Do he rape “shiksa” students or what? Add him to me list of hyper hypocrite rock stars, led by Bono, featuring Simmons, Tom DeLonge and a few others… And I wonder if he is Chabad?
his “celebrityness” was lost when on the episode of “simmons family values” he was showing his young son how to check the oil in his navigator and could not find the dipstick (himself I would say) he made the comment, “that’s why we have gentiles”. His “career” has never recovered after that. Fans saw him as who he really was and they despised him after.
Gene Simmons is a c@%t…
Hey Mark, thanks for recommending “Life of a King.” I watched it tonight. Inspirational and uplifting. Good to see how folks whom life has thrown some serious stuff at, can pick themselves up and start anew. Sure helps when some good mentors are placed in one’s path. I’m still learning the board. Check.
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“I’m a proud son of a concentration camp survivor of Nazi Germany.”
You’re a f%&king RETARD, is what you are.
BFD… so your jew c**t of a mom survived a Nazi WORK camp, where NO STINKING jEWS WERE EVER GENOCIDED, @SSWIPE.
SHOVE THAT jEW PRIDE UP YOUR STINKING jEW @SS, PUKEFACE!!!!!
VERY WELL AND ELOQUENTLY “PUT”. THANKS MAN