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Letter: Send a message by boycotting the NFL

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2017 file photo, from left, Miami Dolphins' Jelani Jenkins, Arian Foster, Michael Thomas, and Kenny Stills, kneel during the singing of the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks in Seattle. The anthem is played before the start of every U.S. major sporting event, where fans and players are expected to salute the flag by placing a hand over the heart while singing along. Not doing so is considered unpatriotic by some. The anthem has also been used by athletes as a way to protest. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)

By John Prescott | The Public Forum
  | Oct. 11, 2017, 3:20 p.m.
| Updated: 3:25 p.m.

I am an American, born here in America and still live here in America.

I have been saddened by the recent outcome with the NFL and its sponsors beside the citizens of the free country who show so much disrespect for the country and our flag and the national anthem. It is time that we who are true Americans to tell the country how we truly feel about this America.

I am in a power wheelchair, so I cannot stand when the national anthem is being played, but I do take my hat off and do place my right hand over my heart and sing the national anthem. It is hard when I see people not remove their hat, (meaning men and women) as the national anthem is played. I admire the veterans who always stand and take there hats off and place there hand and hat over there heart, because they gave part of their life for us to stay free.

We as true Americans should boycott the NFL for a few weeks and give them a message of how we really feel, so this weekend and next weekend, I will not watch an NFL game and will not watch Monday Night Football for the next two Mondays. You may pass this on if you so wish.

God bless America.

John Prescott

Ogden

By John Prescott | The Public Forum