What a complete moron you are! If the country had been stupid enough to elect Hillary we would have had 4 more years of a "do nothing" presidency. She represents nothing more than a paper tiger who wants to be queen of the US similar to the Queen of England. All that your leftist gov't has done is to drive us further and further into an open border country that would become more Muslim everyday. Our Muslim president did everything that he could to infiltrate gov't offices with Muslims. As far as learning Russian, I'll take the Russkies anyway over the Muslims. At least the Russians are civilized whereas the Muslims are still many centuries away from civilization. However with your thinking, your grandchildren are going to grow up under Sharia law and bowing down to face the east several times a day..... Think about the legacy that you would be leaving them with........ What a complete moron you are!

Those that conflate fighting for our nation with a Sunday afternoon football game missed what we did in those jungles, beaches, seas, and forests.

Forcing others to follow a practice they disagree with insults every man and woman who died or bled for our nation.

No war was won because someone at home wore a flag pin. Wars were won because we prevailed in the end.

Jingoism has killed a lot of Americans unnecessarily.

The colors of the flag mean: "Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress, explained the significance to Congress when he presented the seal. “The colors,” Thomson said at the time, “are those used in the flag of the United States of America. White signifies purity and innocence. Red, hardiness & valour, and Blue… signifies vigilance, perseverance & justice.”" While many have bled for, and on, our flag, the red in the flag was never to signify blood.

Yes, many veterans came home and were spit on. The vast majority weren't. The worst though were those that bought deferments for bone spurs and other trivial complaints. The one who called those held in horrendous prison camps "losers". It's funny how some people that hold this man up as a hero ignore his insults to veterans. To those wounded. To those who didn't come home. And when some people clearly state that they disagree with the abuses of the government, they are the ones called traitors.

If you want to take a knee, go for it. I don't; I stand with my hand on my heart. But I do it from my own volition, not because I have to. If someone wants to make an issue of whether or not I stand for our anthem then it is they who has the problem.

Those who whine the loudest didn't serve.

In what manner and in what way did I say I did not value children?? I think those males that father children and do nothing to support them or are not in their lives to be an influence are the ones that do not value children. They abandon their children. They fail to support them in any way. That is left to the taxpayer.
My point is what have the NFL players done other than taking a knee?? How involved have they as a group been?? Talk is cheap. What have they lent their celebrity to that influences change in getting an education and becoming a success?

Did you defend the flag or the country represented by the flag? Please consider this as an honest and serious question from another Vietnam veteran.

The US Congress never declared war on Vietnam, nor on North Korea. The US military was hamstrung by the rules set by the United Nations.

You and I, though, fought for that right of self-expression of kneeling, not to protest, but to bring attention to the wrongs going on now.

The playing of the national anthem at professional sports is degrading the service done by our military, IMO. It is used as a sales hook to get people into the stadiums. Those people standing are not doing for patriotism. They are doing it because someone said, "Please stand".