Obviously we know what those that served did and are doing. So of course this is not directed at you.

82nd Airborne
1991-1995

In other news, the Jets have named 25,000 seats thus to avoid blackouts

And the “Missing Man” formation with fighter jets.

I’m glad we’ve come such a long way from the hippies denigrating our people in the early 70′s.

One wonders how many sons and daughters of Congressmen, Senators, and other high placed and wealthy families are in dangerous combat situations?

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That would be californians knowing “b.s.” when they hear it, and I guarantee you more military people are there, then in foxboro.

Class has nothing to do with it – just P.R., and to make the people feel better about troops urinating on dead bodies, killing children (thinking they are terrorists) and murdering reporters (collateral murder) – a Good portion of the military serve our country, but several others were afflicted with Gulf War Syndrome, Agent Orange, and in some cases experimented on Tuskegee Experiment.

Lets get real – yeah, we appreciate the sacrifice, but dont get it twisted. IT IS THE REAPPORTION of resources and securing those resources by war – Remember when Perot was supposed to go and find out about the POW/MIA’s , and he ended up saying;

“I keep running into drug traffickers bringing drugs into the U.S.”

Nixon abandoned those MIA’s in Vietnam. He wasnt about to pay the Vietnamese any amount for their safe return or otherwise.

People need to get real, and stop this mythologizing the military, and learn about My Lai, Abu Gharib, Fallujah and other atrocities perpetrated by the military.

Good for the Chargers and for California. WE KNOW BETTER.

Semper Fi – former Marine, and current politically aware person.

You are absolutely pathetic for deleting my comment.

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Agree completely on both points. Football is an extension of the mythic delusion that war proftiteers count on. Thats why the high school all-star games promote “ARMY” on their jerseys which is also pathetic.

How about leaving seats unoccupied for a million dead iraqis who had nothing to do with anything.

Its detestable that a public forum FORCIBLY promotes foreign policy through wars that hurt , not aid our image abroad.

AND I AINT GOING ANYWHERE. Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism.

“I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket”
-Smedley Butler

What Pats are doing: Leaving 1 seat empty in tribute to soldiers.
Soldiers get a “tribute” seat they don’t sit in and that’s it

What Pats could be doing: Painting 2 seats with yellow ribbons as tribute seats, selling the seats (preference to active duty military), and donating the proceeds to the Wounded Warrior Fund/other charities geared towards helping the military.

With the second idea, soldiers get a chance to buy tickets to the game, the seats are a tribute to soldiers (and are being used by soldiers) AND money from 8+ football games at Gillette per year is being given to charities who help soldiers.

Rather than a symbolic tribute, why not get soldiers to go to the game AND help fund support services for wounded soldiers?

Just a cheap marketing trick.

Chicago Bears: playing in a stadium dedicating the entire stadium to the soldiers in our great nations’s military since 1925.

Mr. Kraft, the work your team does for the soldiers is wonderful, as is the work done by the other 31 teams. Just don’t think that dedicating one seat is a big thing, when another city did something *slightly* bigger 87 years ago.

Well played.