re: The National Anthem...Why is everyone offended by the kneeling/sitting?

Pick up a weapon, and run forward when everything in your body is telling you to run backward. When your friend you've been with for 2 years since boot camp/ops training falls right next to you bleeding and begging to save him when you know you can't thousands of miles from home. All the while someone at home won't even give you respect enough to stand for a flag you protect daily. These same people making millions and millions a year and kneel because their people are "oppressed" give me a fricking break. They make millions because someone fought to protect that right to...because racism known in our past is gone as we know it, and because this is the land of the free and everyone has equal opportunity to succeed if they work hard enough. All paid for in blood from Valley Forge, to Gettysburg to Normandy to Afghanistan. The irony of them kneeling is mind boggling. The mere fact of their success is proof positive of our growth of equality.