"I usually mostly agree with what you have to say, but I must comment on the two paragraphs that I highlighted in red in your quote.

The first part of your quote.
I personally did have a problem with not only him kneeling, but also sitting during our national anthem. I personally served a bit over 9 years of my life defending his right to do so. I think that his reason(s) for doing so are misguided and wrong. However, like many of the thousands (or millions) that actually protected his right to be a pompous [BLEEP], I would never take that right away from him. Call me a hypocrite if you want, but that Flag and that Anthem means something to me. This might sound kind of "goofy" to some people, but if I'm watching an NFL game, a NASCAR race, etc. in my home, we do go silent and stand during the Anthem.

The second paragraph from your quote.
I can (somewhat) agree with you on this. Now the Anthem has always been played along with a flyover at just about every NFL game and NASCAR race that I've ever attended. I honestly couldn't say for sure when they started televising it at NFL games, but IIRC it's always been done at NASCAR races. Quite frankly I've never really paid that much attention.

However, Kapernick's "protest" was pretty deliberate to get the cameras on him, and it was specifically to show his dis-respect for our country, our Flag and what it stands for. Did he want to bring awareness to some problem in society? Perhaps. Did he ever think about the men and women that serve now or served in the past, sometimes paying the ultimate price to enable him to do so? NOPE. In the end it was all about "him" and his "cause".

I do recall a story from last season where the NFL was profiting in some way for their "military appreciation" or something like that. I don't remember what the whole story was about, but it clearly was for profit rather than for patriotism. That's the part that I agree with you about."
I have to bring some balance to part of what you say, present a counter to your opinion.







I'm also a Veteran, and I give a darn about Kaep's protest. Also, I remember many of my fellow servicemembers taking extreme measures to AVOID having to salute the flag at Reville.

Kaep's protest didn't disrespect this country (unless abuse and racism are interwoven into it....dare we say) nor the military.

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