My ancestors on my dad's side are Germans from Russia who immigrated in 1904 and settled in Kansas.  My dad enlisted in the Army right out of high school in 1940 before Pearl Harbor.  He was company commander of one of the most decorated Tank Destroyer Companies in the war, for holding off the advancing Germans in the Battle of the Bulge; they were eventually overrun and he was captured, spending the rest of the war in a Nazi prison camp.  I had a college deferment from the draft, and still enlisted to serve in Vietnam, where I got a Bronze Star.

But I am not comfortable with the "Pledge of Allegiance" or standing for the anthem being forced on anyone.  That's not the freedom I was fighting to defend.  We don't have to like it, but it is their right, if they're willing to accept the consequences of alienating the people who pay them well to play a game.  You can't force anyone to be loyal.