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#VeteransForKaepernick trends as vets defend NFL player
San Francisco (CNN)Slammed as unpatriotic and disrespectful, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has taken heat for refusing to stand during the national anthem.
Kaepernick was criticized as being insulting to those who made sacrifices for the country. A Gold Star mom who lost her son in an IED attack in Afghanistan told CNN that her heart stopped and she lost her breath when Kaepernick said he couldn't stand for the flag. Local war veterans in San Francisco criticized him as a poor role model, according to CNN affiliate KRON. The San Francisco police union has demanded the NFL denounce Kaepernick's "foolish statements."
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This is good reading. I'm so glad you posted this. I work at one of the Veterans hospitals here in the central Arkansas area. While my job in the lab doesn't allow me a lot of interaction with our Veterans, I do occasionally get to talk with them whenever I have to perform phlebotomy (draw blood) for our surgery and pre-Op vets. This week, however, my rotation assignment is the Processing area of the lab; this is where our Veterans come for blood draw, so I pounced on the opportunity to get their views on this.
I talked with 3 Veterans, one white male (post-Korea), one Black male (post-Korea), and one white woman (Desert Storm). All, naturally, do stand during the playing of the national anthem, but all did mention this in their responses: it's about what the national anthem represents, the country, and defending the country so that people can have the right to express and stand for what they believe in. The men I spoke with did say that if you truly stand behind what you believe in, not only will you fight for it, you'll die for what you believe in.