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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 1809565, member: 199"] Kib - I agree that it may be the only way to stop the kneeling protest, but I still have a hard time understanding why people can't just accept what is to me a very 'respectful' kind of protest. They aren't in any way disrupting the playing of the anthem or interfering in everyone else's ability to stand. To me it is like saying when a benediction is offered at the beginning of a gathering, 'Well, there were five atheists in the crowd who didn't say, Amen, so I guess we shouldn't do that any more, because they destroyed our group prayer.' I guess if this ritual of patriotism is so fragile that 0.1% of the crowd not participating destroys it for everyone, it really should be abandoned. [/QUOTE]