{"id":28416,"date":"2014-03-03T01:51:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T04:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28416"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:14:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:14:38","slug":"mike-farrell-gets-standing-ovation-at-usafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/mike-farrell-gets-standing-ovation-at-usafa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Farrell Gets Standing Ovation at USAFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the dozens of speakers who addressed the National Character and Leadership Symposium at the US Air Force Academy last week, the local Colorado Springs Gazette <a href=\"http:\/\/gazette.com\/activist-mike-farrell-pulls-no-punches-with-air-force-academy-speech-gets-standing-ovation\/article\/1515576\">highlighted just one<\/a>: former MASH star Mike Farrell (<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/25\/mrff-board-member-mike-farrell-to-speak-at-usafa\/\">previously discussed<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Actor and activist Mike Farrell said he gave his usual, well-honed speech.<\/p>\n<p>He focused on human dignity, derided the death penalty and the Iraq war, and described American tactics against alleged terrorists as &#8220;drone murder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the audience that gave him a standing ovation&#8230;\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Farrell stuck to his lifelong causes, largely disagreeing with the government and military operations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said America is failing the values of its founding father, becoming a nation of government spies, prisons and drone warfare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article did make a one-sentence note that Farrell is on Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein&#8217;s MRFF board &#8212; but said nothing more than that.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the other featured speakers have video of their speeches <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/tags\/video\/national-character-leadership-symposium\">available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Repeated at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/air-force\/m-a-s-h-actor-mike-farrell-draws-standing-ovation-at-af-academy-1.270384\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the dozens of speakers who addressed the National Character and Leadership Symposium at the US Air Force Academy last week, the local Colorado Springs Gazette highlighted just one: former MASH star Mike Farrell (previously discussed). Actor and activist Mike Farrell said he gave his usual, well-honed speech. He focused on human dignity, derided the death penalty and the Iraq [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[52,3394,85,2,5218,7,1528,10,171,53,65],"class_list":["post-28416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-iraq","tag-mike-farrell","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-ncls","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-uav","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}