With reference to “as of now, I’m no longer a football fan,” Peninsula Daily News, Sept. 17:
I cannot agree more with the writer with one exception.
He is a football fan, but he is not a fan of a bunch of snot-nosed, molly-coddled, overpaid, spoiled brats who have done nothing for their country and are permitted to publicly to show their disrespect for it.
I wrote a letter to Seahawks management indicating I would not watch National Football League football until this outrage was stopped.
No answer to my letter.
The least the owners could do is keep the teams in their locker rooms until after our national anthem is played. This would permit us Americans to display our three minutes of patriotism without some public eyesores spoiling it.
Now I’m going to carry this a bit further.
I recently read a Time article stating that 70 percent of today’s youth of military age are unfit for duty. Seventy percent is a huge number.
The article stated that the reasons were obesity and drug use along with trouble with the law.
This scares me, and I wonder what value systems are being used in modern homes and schools.
Ethan Harris,
Sequim