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Beck’s Heartfelt Reflection Video on Chris Kyle’s Memorial Service: ‘Symbols of Redemption Were Everywhere’

Feb. 13, 2013 7:37am Billy Hallowell

On Tuesday, Glenn Beck delivered a heartfelt reflection following slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle’s memorial service. After sharing how he learned about the hero’s tragic death, the popular television and radio host commemorated Kyle’s life and legacy.

Beck noted the many heroes he saw at the memorial service — individuals who have given greatly of themselves to protect their country.

“I found myself thanking God for a country built on redemption,” he said.

Beck also highlighted symbols of this redemption that were plentiful inside of Cowboys Stadium, the location where the memorial was held, with the flag, family and a cross serving as some of the prime examples. He concluded the reflective tribute by thanking Kyle.

Watch the moving commentary, below:

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DEW31
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:22pm
Let us not forget that this was a simple tribute for a TRUE PATRIOT to our nation. It is funny that the posts on here criticize Glenn for posting this trying to exploit this issue when nobody calls out the President exploiting every gun issue possible while trying to push his agenda. I don’t see OBAMAs A$$ helping soldiers who return from battle with PTSD or even paying a tribute to a man who fights for our freedom. Obama wasn’t complaining about Seal Team 6 taking out Bin Laden so he could take credit in front of the nation but he cant even pay tribute to this American Hero. Whitney Houston had more coverage from the President than this man. Pathetic piece of work who calls himself a man…. let alone a President. Keep up the good work Glenn!

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- PA PATRIOT
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:33pm
  Bravo
  
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Verceofreason
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:41pm
As usually, with Beck (And Palin) a bunch of words, put together) equaling absolutley NOTHING.
Gotta give FOX their props for finally waking up.

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AUsername
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:16pm
don’t forget chris dorner where is his love lol

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Charles Curtis
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:58am
This is a SEAL that defended your right to debate anything anywhere – so show some respect!
God Bless America. God grant peace to his family.
Pray for restoration. Pray for a renewal of your own faith.
And to those who have no religious belief; take a moment and challenge a non-existent God to change your mind about God, if you dare.

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- GilbertAcct
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:30pm
  So let me get this straight… You are saying that if we wouldn’t have illegally and immorally went to war with Iraq, and if Kyle hadn’t gone and killed 255 people, that I would have lost my right to debate anywhere I please?
  
  Question: If two armed robbers break into your house, see you with a gun, and one shoots you dead… Is the robber who shot you justified because he was “protecting” his buddy? Was he practicing self defense, or is he a murderer? You were trying to take away his right to debate and vote and whatnot… So he is a hero right?
  
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Guitar Master
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:16am
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From THE REPORTER
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This whole debate is about nation-building which began after WW II. Chris Kyle was part of the nation-building process, like it or not. The question is: How many countries have we destroyed in order to save them?

Will the real Glenn Beck of old please step forward?

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outremre
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:34am
160 confirmed kills. Wow. That is the definition of an American hero; a killer. By that regard Chris Dorner should be held up as an American icon for all to behold. Chris Kyle and Dorner are dirt, and they are both indicative of what has gone wrong with men in this country, men who have the mentality of a savage mongrel. Both of them were brainwashed sociopaths. I cannot fathom how Glenn Beck, who holds reverence to God and non-violence could ever hold such killer up in such high regards. I ask again, has anybody here ever read American Sniper? It is so much mindless dribble and propaganda, and hate. Read Marine Sniper instead, covering the exploits of Carlos Hathcock to get a look inside the mind of a man who is not a mindless brute. I don’t see much of difference between fire-bombing Dresden or shooting Iraqis. War makes killers of us all. Why anyone would take pride in killing defies the bond of humanity. Go read Lt. Col. Grossman’s book On Killing. It will open your eyes. Then read On Combat by the same author. There are simply no better titles to explain the transition from man into killing machine.

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CanadaRocks
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:17am
I think he was murdered by an extreme right wing group to add power to their side of the gun debate. Is it not a little suspect that someone would take a mentally derranged person to a shooting range for “therapy?” I think that the teaparty and gun nutz had a hand in this conspiracy. Something just is not right.

It is also a little disheartening for the blaze to use his kids tears as a tool to gain sympathy in the debate. Is this not what you accused obama of during sandy hook?

You live your life worshipping and idolizing guns, chances are the gun will kill you. This case just proves my point. This man worships firearms and loves them so much it is only fitting that it was a firearm that killed him. Somethings are more surprising than others. This was no surprise at all.

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- PA PATRIOT
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:34am
  OH Canada
  That is why there is a border on the 49th parralell.
  To keep nuts like you out of the US.
  
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- CanadaRocks
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:33am
  I think it is the other way around friend.
  
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- diannalynn1
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:28am
  idiot!
  
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- CanadaRocks
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:40am
  Ya PA Patriot is an idiot. Everyone knows americans come to canada to live. Not the other way around.
  
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- PA PATRIOT
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:02pm
  Sorry Canada, It is the other way around.
  Immitation is the highest form of flattery.
  And by the way, what could you possibly know about gun ownership?
  
  “Systematic auditing of firearm owners and sports is implemented and enforced in most of Central Canada” wikipedia
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Canada#History_of_firearm_laws_in_Canada
  
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- reevers
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:06pm
  What has any Canadian done for the world lately?
  
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- CanadaRocks
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:22pm
  We dont need guns in canada except for hunting purposes if thats what you are into. We have a thing called trust here. I am an american who left america durin the bush years. I said i he won a second election we were moving and we did. At least we backed up our words. I thought rush limbaugh was supposed to leave after obama won? And nugent would be in prison or gone by now. I guess my word is stronger than theirs. Imagine that.
  
  What is it you need your guns to protect you for? The tyrannical black man in the “white” house? The black kid eating skittles in a gated community? The chicago radicals? The fact that gays can now openly serve in the army? A womans right to choose? The soulless atheists trying to steal xmas away from you? What are you that scared of?
  
  If you wanna live in a bunker with your guns and bible, by all means go for it. But i dont ever worry about anything since i moved here. If you wanna live in fear that is your perogative. But not all of the world are as paranoid and crazy as you.
  
  Kyle was a killer. Plain and simple. He did not protect me or you from anything. If he stood on your doorstep and killed an intruder than he would be a hero. But he was 1000′s of miles away killing people from distance like a coward. The fact that this man is considered a hero is a joke. He is a nitwit that died because of his own stupidity by giving a gun to a man with psychological problems.
  
  It was karma that he killed so many by a gun and died the same as th
  
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- CanadaRocks
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:24pm
  @reevers. We stay out of everyone else’s affairs which in turn gives us respect around the world.
  
  What has america done for te world other than help cause turmoil and wars?
  
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- reevers
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:41pm
  @canadarocks Canada stays out of others affairs because they a weak military, which stems from having a bloated socialist government. Canada had to hitch a ride with the Americans when they went to Afghanistan. I’m glad you’re happy in Canada, the U.S. is better with one less lefty in it. Now if we could just get the rest of the lefty loons to join you.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:42pm
  @PA PATRIOT
  The Canadian sounds EXACTLY like most of the posters here. hell-O
  
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- CanadaRocks
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:16pm
  @reevers. Hitch a ride? As i remember we went there to help you out of the quagmire you got yourselves into. Please canada help us!!!! In fact in april of last year you begged us to extend our stay again. And i also recall canada being the place slaves escaped to. And if i am not mistaken canada whooped the stars and stripes off your attempts to invade in 1812.
  
  So you beg for canadas help, tried to invade us and failed and canada is weak? Typical rah rah usa from the right.
  
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- PA PATRIOT
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:23pm
  Burnt Toast
  No you are quite wrong. Canada sounds much more like you. Troll jibberish.
  
  Canada,
  To many of us Chris did his DUTY as a soldier and did it with HONOR. As a young American, I grew up in the late 60s and read many stories of pot smoking hippie freaks and draft dodgers going to Canada to avoid service in Viet Nam. I do not mean to lump you into that catagory, but really Canada?
  Do I fear society…. No I fear Obama and the “Entitled Uninformed Voter.”
  My late father was USMC.
  Like Chris Kyle, he died with honor.
  Respectfully submitted
  Proud American
  
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- Derek01
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:25pm
  Big words from a coward who ran away in the middle of the night. You’re correct, America is not the place for you. Please encourage your cowardly friends to move up there with you. We don’t need you or want you here. No doubt you’re enjoying life, welching off the Canadian system
  
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- CanadaRocks
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:55pm
  Ok PA Patriot. If they were to enact the draft again for a war that is unjustified and that you know to be a travesty and they draft you, you will be ok with that and go slaughter some innocent people because uncle sam tells you too? I find that pretty pathetic.
  
  Draft dodgers left because they did not want to die for a bullcrap cause. They knew the gov was lying to them about what was going on. Now i they voluntarily enlisted they would be sent back like what canada is doing now to the iraq soldiers trying to flee. Too bad. You signed up. Deal with it. But your president telling you to die for something you dont believe in unvoluntarily while rich people like romney and bush got deferrments…. Well can you blame those hippies? Not everyone is a killer. It takes a special kind of monster to kill on command. But no one will force me to kill anyone. I will take a bullet for my wife and children and kill if they were in danger but to sign up to kill people willingly will never happen. Not for me. If not killing people willingly makes me a coward than yes i am a coward. But a coward taking nothing to the grave with me. Killing in war because your commander tells you to does not justify it.
  
  And if you are a christian you answer to god. What if god knows that the war was based on lies. Would he not make you suffer for that? Or would he forgive by repenting and saying sorry. Obama is the least warmongering president of the past 40 years. So what are you so scared of?
  
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- PA PATRIOT
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:13pm
  Canada,
  It is an honor to live in America.
  Perhaps it is not something you can grasp.
  I have known many who gave all, and I know very few who would not give.
  Unfortunately, Now I do.
  Live out your life in the splendor of Canada.
  When the SHTF, don’t come cryin to me.
  
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- reevers
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:30pm
  @CANADAROCKS Canada can’t hold a candle to the U.S. in anything, especially militarily. I wouldn’t trade one Chris Kyle for the entire country of Canada. Now why don’t you skeedaddle off to the Daily Beast or NPR where you can do some more Canuck play acting, nobody here gives a rat’s ass about a dumb, bitter left wing loon.
  
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cdn1979
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:10am
glenn getting paid off the hard work and sacrifice of others. is there no situation he will not exploit? Glenn, you truly are a disgusting person.

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- MommaGrizzly
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:14am
  you obviously don’t know Glenn. The money he is raising for Chris’s family is astonishing and shows the kind of man he is. Your words are showing the kind of person you are.
  
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- diannalynn1
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:29am
  cdn1979,,,, you don’t like Glenn???? get the Hell off this website! IDIOT!
  
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homebuilder
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:52am
Gilbertacct

I am guessing that you believe that because we did not fid a working a weapon that there were no weapons of mass destruction. We found all the chemical components, the shells to deploy them and the clean room trailers to assemble them. In any court they are guilty as charged.

This woman that you said was protecting her land was in fact trying to kill her child. What do you have to say for the cleric that beat his 5 year old daughter to death because he thought some raped her? These people kill young girls that try to educate themselves. Anyone that treats another human with this level of malevolence for only trying to better themselves is an animal and should be dealt as such. Chris was protecting the protectors of freedom. Using your logic all police are murders that stop criminals by killing them.

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- GilbertAcct
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:50am
  Homebuilder… I’m assuming based on your first paragraph that you are in favor of strict gun laws. Anyone who can’t see the propaganda and lies that got us into Iraq is caught up in some major cognitive dissonance.
  
  As for the woman, you take some pretty irrational liberties in deaming that she was going to kill her child. Yes that makes sense… she kept her child safe and alive, but out of pure coincidence she became violently matricidal at the exact same time that she saw a gang of armed marines approaching. You ask me to use logic? A police officer who kills a criminal to protect the innocent is not a murderer… but a soldier who participates in an illegal war and kills innocent civilians overseas would be considered a murderer. Question: are the nazi’s who were patriotic and followed orders to kill innocent civilians patriots or murderers?
  
  I don’t condone any sort of violence against others that is not in self defense… and there are sick and twisted muslims out there, just like there are sick and twisted catholics or buddhists. The problem is that you let Beck and others convince you that all muslims are evil. Take a look at Rick Steve’s presentation on his trip to Iran. You see many women at the Universities there. I assume that you didn’t know that women can seek higher education in Iran? Who is the ignorant one here?
vaman
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:51am
Flag, family and cross would be a nice sentiment. Too bad beck and his crowd of anti-Americans have hijacked those words for their own purposes from this story. Flag, family and cross are radical christian speak for prejudice, hate and bigotry. Their code words are known by about everyone, so I’m surprised beck and company would use such a solemn occasion to attempt such chicanery and deception.

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- homebuilder
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:02am
  It is interesting that the only hate, bigotry and prejudice come from people like you and your kind. It is interesting how people claim that they are not any of these, but continue to spew lies and false information are prevalent in today’s society. Your actions make up who you are not your words.
  
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midcoastmainepatriot
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:14am
God Speed Seal….Take your Rest……You,Sir Have Earned It

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- diannalynn1
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:30am
  Amen.
  
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- CanadaRocks
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:28pm
  He will be taking his dirt nap in the same place as those he killed. Karma is a real stinger sometimes.
  
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- midcoastmainepatriot
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:47pm
  Hey Canada………Go F^#k yourself you worthless piece of S*#T…..There is not a SOUL in your Whole F%$#$*G Country that is worthy to lick Chis Kyle’s Boots…you puzzy Troll
  
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- CanadaRocks
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:38pm
  What blows my mind is that americans look at a killer as a hero. Here is a list o real heroes for you.
  
  MLK
  Ghandi
  Abe Lincoln
  Dalai lama
  911 firefighters/police/1st responders
  Jane goodall
  Nelson mandela
  Mother teresa
  Bob geldoff
  Jackie robinson
  Medgar evers
  Thomas edison
  Bill gates
  Harvey milk
  
  What did this callous sniper do that was even close to what they have accomplished? Oh he killed about 200 more people than they did. What a hero. In 1 year people wont even remember his name.
  
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GilbertAcct
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:58am
An excerpt from a piece by Future of Freedom Foundation president and Army veteran Jacob Hornberger:

Consider the following incident related by Kyle, who was one of the U.S. military’s deadliest snipers. Two weeks after he arrived in Iraq, he encountered a woman with a child who pulled a grenade as she was approached by a group of Marines. Kyle shot her dead. He said, “It was my duty to shoot, and I don’t regret it. My shots saved several Americans, whose lives were clearly worth more than that woman’s twisted soul.”

But who here has the twisted soul? That woman was defending her country from the troops of a brutal foreign regime that had unlawfully invaded and occupied her country and killed countless of her countrymen, perhaps members of her family or friends or acquaintances. Kyle was a soldier who had blindly followed the orders of the president to attack, invade, and occupy a country that had never attacked the United States and was killing people who were resisting his aggression.

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- nadia byk
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:26am
  women r treated like dogs in the Muslim world ,she is in a better place, Chris was there to protect Americans from the brainwashed muslim men.
  
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- GilbertAcct
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:47am
  Nadia… what a sick justification for murder.
  
  Also, the average Muslim man wants nothing more than you do… to be left alone. A tiny fraction of muslims are radicalized to actively pursue harming others. Our aggressive military adventures in muslim countries are the greatest radicalizing factor. Al-qaida is able to recruit because of our actions. Read some liturature from Robert Pape to learn the truth about this subject.
  
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- midcoastmainepatriot
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 7:51am
  Go suck on Sorros…….Jeez the Moon-Bats are out in full regalia on this one…..God Bless Chris Kyle and all FREEDOM LOVING PATRIOTS !!!!!!!!!! I Pray for You
  
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