Some comments on this site regarding Colin Kaepernick and his failure to get an NFL contract are sickening and show who are the real un-Americans. And it isn't Kaepernick, Brandon Marshall or any other player who protested during playing of the national anthem.

In this nation anyone and everyone has the right to make their views known at any time. By protesting, Kaepernick and Marshall figuratively stood up for the values and principles that anthem is supposed to represent. Their critics and sponsors who dropped the players for their pro-America activity of free speech are the real un-Americans.

I have an advantage on this issue, acing constitutional law in graduate school and spending several years as an intelligence analyst for the Department of Defense protecting this nation from foreign isms. 

I also had the good sense to escape with my sanity from the worst working environment I ever experience: The Denver Post.