The Celeste Stein Show with Celeste Stein and guests retired NFL players Derrick Mason and Chris Sanders, Retired Military Officer Colonel Maurice Clemons

Topic: Patriotism and Taking a knee and the Colin Kaepernick controversy

YouTube Video Link: https://youtu.be/bIHVIMO_vG8

Vietnam was a trauma for the United States, because it could never come to understand how Americans would win the major battles in the field but gradually be losing the war.  How could such a thing happen?  And how did it happen?  Americans have fought difficult enemies in jungles before; the Japanese in particular, in places like Burma (now Myanmar), the Philippines, and also among a collection of Pacific Islands as well.  Ah, but Ho Chi Minh didn’t underestimate the significance of public opinion, that national force which gives a moral force to the purpose of the figh