When worshiping God, kneeling is respectful, but when worshiping the flag, kneeling is disrespectful — according, no doubt, to someone who made it up.
I thought our flag stood for the Founding Fathers' principles, primary among them, the principle of liberty. Certainly it stands for a whole lot more than "our troops," which have been co-opted by reference into the latest patriotism-as-dog-whistle race pandering scheme by President Donald Trump. The flag certainly stands for peaceful protest, and free speech, and free association. And the list goes on. It's all there in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
I'll go way out on a limb and propose President Trump has read neither. The enduring mystery here is that anyone believes that, after inflicting heaping mounds of moral vandalism on himself, he retains any such authority to tell anyone how to act.
— Bob Lacher
Palmer