Letter from Retired Marine to NFL Commissioner re: Not Standing during National Anthem

Commissioner

I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and Giants Stadium.
I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert
Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped
across their lifeless bodies. My last conversation with one of them, Sgt Garrett
Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to the Super Bowl. He never got
to see it.
Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or for me
through the years returned home with the American Flag draped over their
coffins.
Now I watch multi millionaire athletes who never did anything in their lives but
play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died for. They are
essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of real men, men who have
actually done something for this country beside playing with a ball and
believing they’re something special! They’re not! My Marines and Soldiers were!
You are complicit in this!
You’ll fine players for large and small infractions but you lack the morale
courage and respect for our nation and the fallen to put an immediate stop to
this.
Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable
manner. What would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs
publicly?
I observed a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end zone after
scoring. I guess that’s much worse than disrespecting the flag and our National
Anthem. Hmmmmm, isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an
idiot in the end zone? Why is taunting not allowed yet taunting America is ok?
You fine players for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes yet you allow scum on the
sidelines to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air. They are so
deprived with their multimillion dollar contracts for playing a freaking game!
You condone it all by your refusal to act.

You’re just as bad and disgusting as they are. I hope Americans boycott any sponsor who supports that rabble you call  the NFL. I hope they turn off the TV when any team that allowed this disrespect  to occur, without consequence, on the sidelines.
Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads. They wear body armor and carry
rifles.  They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their families. They  don’t do it for an hour on Sunday. They do 24/7 often with lead,not footballs,
coming in their direction. They watch their brothers carted off in pieces not on
a gurney to get their knee iced. They don’t even have ice! Many do t have legs
or arms. Some wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America.
They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down to safety.
On 9-11, hundreds vanished. They are the heroes.
I hope that your high paid protesting pretty boys and you look in that mirror
when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are, legends in your own minds.
You need to hit the road and take those worms with you!
Time to change the channel.

Col Jeffrey A Powers USMC(ret)

(Agree, and have boycotted football until they get this petty foolishness fixed.  Common sense left the stadium and stupid is hanging on.  Have to remember this was not Kaepernick’s original idea – it was his Muslim girlfriends idea to disrupt the country.  Problem is – he is in it too deep to back out now.)

kommonsentsjane