Importance Of Standing For The National Anthem

📌Category: History, History of the United States, United States, World
📌Words: 635
📌Pages: 3
📌Published: 23 January 2022

Americans must stand for the national anthem to praise lost soldiers, honor freedom, and respect the country. Americans have been fighting for our freedom and to protect us from threats so we must stand for the anthem to show respect and unity. However, kneeling or sitting for the national anthem has been an arousing problem since 2016. Kneeling for the Star Spangle Banner is not a way for plentiful to protest racial discrimination. Though it may be a way for a point to get across our minds, think of the countless service men and women in combat and those who have lost their lives. Kneeling for one minute and forty-nine seconds is not a way to “peacefully” protest a problem; it is still debasing the populace.

We have been standing up for the national anthem since June 14th, 1777 as a unity to the thirteen stripes. Standing for our Star Spangled Banner shows our nation respecting our country and our fallen men and women in combat. Nevertheless in 2016 San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin kaepernick took a knee while the national anthem was being played across the stadium at a preseason game. Kaepernick kneeled as a protest to police brutality towards racial minorities. Although Kaepernick did this as a peaceful protest it has led to an uprising of enormous amounts of disrespect. President Donald Trump stated that he will not be supporting any and all athletes' rights to peacefully protest during the playing of our national anthem. 

Recently thirteen men and women were brought back home after being killed in an attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. A total of eighteen American soldiers were trying to evacuate as many people as they could away and out  of the airport and from the suicide bomber. This attack killed at least one hundred seventy people, and is now considered one of the deadliest enemy attacks against U.S. forces in Afghanistan since 2011. The only reason our armed soldiers are stationed in Afghanistan is to protect us and our freedom. We station men and women devoted to protecting our nation out of fear someone is going to take it away from us. So to think people are sitting down while we honor our freedom and these men and women for almost two minutes is pathetic on America's part and we need to get it together. Racial discrimination has been a problem for awhile now and we American’s need to be united with protest but not like this. Not sitting to honor things we aren’t deserving right now. 

We all have been watching or hearing about our professional and national sporting teams for years now, all the great times and records being beat. We praise those more than anything, that's a great thing because that’s what makes us America, we praise our sports more than anything. We watch players get injured all the time and we take a knee for them as a sign of respect to them. Kneeling for them is one thing but kneeling for the Star Spangled Banner is different. According to the NFL all players who are on the field when the Star Spangled Banner is played before a game they must stand or they can remain in the locker room without penalty. Some owners of these teams are terminating anyone who dishonors our men and women by kneeling for the anthem. If we say we are “United” then lets be united and stand as one during the Star Spangled Banner is played as respect and honor. 

We stand as a nation nothing else, everyone must take a stance during the national anthem and before the flag. We can find many other and more efficient ways to protest police brutality. The only time a knee needs to be taken is during the game when a player has gotten injured, not when honoring the men and women of our armed forces. Take a stance to be united, praise our lost men and women, honor our freedom given to us, and respect our country. No one has an excuse not to stand with our nation.

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