Letter from Retired Marine to NFL Commissioner re: Not Standing during National Anthem
Commissioner
I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and Giants Stadium.
I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert
Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped
across their lifeless bodies. My last conversation with one of them, Sgt Garrett
Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to the Super Bowl. He never got
to see it.
Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or for me
through the years returned home with the American Flag draped over their
coffins.
Now I watch multi millionaire athletes who never did anything in their lives but
play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died for. They are
essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of…