It’s not enough just to make them stand, but stand properly at attention with hand on heart and eyes on flag. And no protest antics before or after.
Exactly.
He's parsing words - says they'll have to 'stand' but NO mention of hand on heart etc.
They 'stood" once before. and linked arms. That would be another slap in the face - thinking they could do just enough to make it ok -but not REALLY the right way. I pray that the people who have stopped watching - do it long enough to break the habit. After a few weeks, they'll find there's a lot of other things to do with time.
Exactly. Too bad for them everyone knows what they think anyway, but there’s no need to just let the overpaid thugs get away with it.
They will still hate us—can’t fix that...