Matthew Betley is a former Marine officer and thriller novelist known for his military action series featuring Logan West. He contributed opinion pieces to The Weekly Standard in 2017–2018, drawing on his military background to write about leadership, the NFL kneeling controversy, and issues affecting veterans and service members.
The league uses patriotism to sell tickets and merch, but Roger Goodell doesn't care at all about the people for whom the national anthem means something.
Trump's "I misspoke" clarification is even worse than his original answer.
Time dulls the sharp edges of painful memories, but some events are so traumatic that they are burned into our psyches where they live on forever.
I deployed to Iraq from 2006 to 2007, during a time when every single day you worried that a random IED, rocket, or mortar attack would take your life. (Al Anbar province was a bad place to be in those days.) Yet Sundays were special. Because on Sundays, the Armed Forces Network would broadcast as…