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Letter: Honoring America

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

The NFL and other professional sports organizations used to be glad to honor our country, showing respect for our flag and our national anthem.

Today? The disease called liberalism is seeping into the sports world. Considering how the rest of the world lives, all Americans used to be thankful for their freedoms and the sports world was also.

But it seems like these very wealthy players, who often aren’t trained to do anything else, think that they are greater and more important than the rest of us. They will learn that this isn’t true, but while this is going on, they are hurting all those young children who think they are leaders to follow.

It’s bad enough to damage their image of the players, but teaching these children to believe it’s all right to not honor our flag is ugly and wrong. If the pros were complaining about less money being made before, it’s nothing when compared to what will be lost as a result of this anti-Amer...

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