Pro Players Disrespecting the Military and Removing Their Sanctuary

From where did the National Anthem come? On September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner known as our National Anthem after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships in Baltimore Harbor during the 1812 Battle of Baltimore. He was inspired by the American Flag flown, tattered and torn, flying triumphantly against the enemy of America. The United States Navy, in 1889, recognized the Star Spangled Banner as the US Navy official Anthem. On March 3, 1931, the US Congress made it our National Anthem with the signature of President Herbert Hoover. The National Anthem from day one has been about our great US Military’s heroism, patriotism, and sacrifice for our country. Most Americans only know one verse of the National Anthem even though there are four; all four are below.

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;

O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,

In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:

'Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,

A home and a country, should leave us no more?

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.

Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

The irony to the disrespecting of our National Anthem for a race is every race in America has died represented their race in the military and Old Glory covered them. These protesters are spiting in the faces of their own race’s military heroes by protesting using the National Anthem. This is the same National Anthem, which salutes their race’s sacrifice for our country. When you disrespect Old Glory and the National Anthem, you disrespect the memory of all races who sacrificed for it, and by it draped. 

In the military, we see things no person should ever see, do things no one should ever have to do, and these things, we will never forget. Our escapes from this and being political pawns of politicians from both parties, is in most cases, professional sports. In the NFL, they did not allow, political activism, from any side. When the NFL turned down the Dallas Cowboys wanting to honor the police shot by a member of Black Lives Matter stating they did not support political activism, I could understand why, they wanted to keep the NFL non-political. The National Anthem protesting is 100% political and the NFL is bias. If you are not going to honor the fallen police in Dallas for political reasons, how can you, for political reasons, honor disrespecting the National Anthem for political reasons? I spent 27 years in the military to defend your right to protest, but it turns my stomach, the disrespect toward our fallen, including Medal of Honor recipients, William Maud Bryant-African American-Army, Salvatore Giunta-Italian American-Army, Leroy Petry-Mexican American-Army, William Kyle Carpenter-Caucasian American-Marines, Michael P. Murphy-Caucasian American-Navy, John Levitow-Caucasian American-Air Force, and Douglas Munro-Canadian American-Coast Guard. We have all races and all branches of service honored by the National Anthem; turning the National Anthem into a political pawn is mephitic to our country, thanks Mr. Goodell.

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