Actually, we died for his right TO SIT or stand...

[malthaussen]

10. Good cartoon.

Every teacup needs its storm, I guess.

Lost in the patriotic furor is the question of courtesy, by which one indulges rituals which make no sense to him because he doesn't want to offend those to whom the ritual matters. It is always for the individual to decide if his morality will permit him to participate in such rituals. I'd suggest that rising for a nation's anthem is a fairly passive act, much more so than, for example, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, which is a positive act. But Mr Kaepernick or any other might slice the onion differently. And as the gentlemen on the right of the cartoon so justly point out, that is exactly what they were fighting for.

-- Mal