Standing for our flag

Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 Updated Apr 13, 2025
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Editor,

So let’s look past the player’s explanations for not standing for the national anthem or their lack of understanding that the flag represents an ideal and those who lost their lives so that we may freely pursue that ideal.

(3) comments

JD Rhoads Aug 21, 2018 7:37am

Let's take a look at how this all started and go back to the original program and stop all this B.S. Up until the two gulf wars the National Anthem was played well before the game started and before the players were even on the field. In order to gin up Patriotism for the wars the Federal Government approached the NFL and offered to pay to have the players on the field and the National Anthem played just before the game started. How about we go back to the way it was done for decades and drop the faux Patriot indignation? The only reason our President is making a big deal of this? He wanted a football team and the NFL said no. And for those who do everything but sleep in the flag because they are the true Americans a big no no in flag etiquette is carrying the flag horizontally on the field. Raise a stink about that while you're at it.

Tim E Strinden Aug 24, 2018 7:20pm

Agree, JD, except I would go further and quit playing the National Anthem at sporting events. Sports and politics are two completely separate things, so why play the National Anthem at sporting events in the first place? They are unrelated and it is just asking for trouble. It also encourages jingoism and less informed discussion of issues.

JME Aug 21, 2018 4:35pm

Be Nice. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism that is degrading to another person.

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