In response to NFL anthem/flag protests around our country Sunday Sept 24, 2017.

The failure of American public schools was evident across the length and breadth of our beloved country this weekend. Countless sheep decided to dis-respect our nation's symbol, thus enabling our enemies like no spin out of Washington D.C. could. They know now, that we are weak, deeply divided, and non-patriotic and won't care who comes in to do whatever.

Not everyone, of course.

The spin this morning is that such dis-respectful actions have nothing to do with love of flag and country, but everything to do with mis-treatment of some folks, or whatever.

Wrong.

Those of us, and we are in the vast, vast majority, who stand to respect our flag and anthem, are fully aware of our failings as a country, a mixed culture found nowhere else on Earth. We are also aware of our accomplishments, of the Five Thousand Year Leap, of the advances humans have and can make when given the freedom and the laws to do so, un-hindered by restrictive one-person rules and dictates. One fellow has been quoted as saying America is only known for baseball, Constitution, and Jazz music. I dis-agree.

Name another country where people are willing to die, to risk their lives, to reach. People: stow away, float, swim, hijack, tunnel, falsify papers to come to America. Our freedoms are like nowhere else on Earth. Folks are taking them for granted.

Standing for our flag acknowledges that we are Americans, all of us immigrants or descended from. Many cultures, languages, backgrounds, customs, habits, beliefs religious and otherwise. E Pluribus Unum. Out of Many, One.

We all know America is not perfect. Our failings, however, are out there for all to see, unlike govts. past and present around the globe today. We are aware of what needs fixing, and we are working on it. It will not get fixed, whatever it is, overnight.

To me it is hypocritical to stand in an arena and boo those who don't show this respect, then sit down and watch them perform for us anyway, as if we can't live without their athleticism. Horse hockey.

What will happen to us as a nation, unique to all others, when we stop coming together as one people, under one flag, no longer believing in the ideals and philosophies and guidelines laid out for us 228 years ago, when our Constitution was produced in 1789? We have to, we must believe in something. Otherwise, we believe in nothing, and that shall be the end of us.