You might want to listen to a real Viet Nam veteran and sports announcer out of Dallas, Texas. This has been going around on Facebook--just click take me to the site when asked.
https://www.facebook.com/Mediamatters/videos/10154960994046167/

Personally I would much rather prefer that our players WANT to stand, versus being FORCED to, because I am actually a patriot of this country, and understand what our forefathers intention was for this country.   And I know what our veterans and military have sacrificied so much for  so this country to be it is the way it is today.  We cannot toss out the 1st amendment of the Constitution, in order to turn this country into something that is not even recognizable, or to satiate the appetite of one Narcissistic President--who thrives on attention and continually attacks American entities & private citizens in this country in order to get the attention he so craves.