Eric Reid Anthem Thread

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(04-10-2018, 12:45 PM)wildcats forever Wrote: Then there are those who blow off the Anthem entirely, by standing in line for their beer and hotdogs. Why isn't this level of disrespect being criticized by those who are concerned about kneeling?

Side rant, but this is quite the fascinating aspect of it socially.  I've noticed that people who are in the concourse, or outside the stadium and can HEAR the anthem don't take off their hats or stop what they are doing.  As soon as people enter the stadium however, they would stop almost immediately in the walkway or on the stairs and take off their hats and stand still.

Part of me thought it was because they saw the flag but people who can see the flag from outside don't stop and observe the anthem.  Just an interesting thing I've noticed, is all.  It's definitely on of those "velvet rope" style social rules, in my mind.

My own side view is that the things people decide to be disrespectful to veterans is awfully arbitrary, too...or it's just very flag-related only. You hear about respecting the flag for the sake of veterans, but my ol' man (who was a vet) would wonder why people don't worry about offending those who fought and died for this country when they throw their trash and cigarette butts all over our great nation and/or pollute our air and water and so on. Just something to make me think, I guess.