E.R. Shipp's commentary ("Mr. Kaepernick is the ultimate patriot," Sept. 6) was a disgrace. She must have been kidding. I couldn't care less whether this overpaid sports figure sits during the national anthem. That's his right. But to equate this guy with our founding fathers and the American Revolution was, please pardon the pun, revolting.
We may be a "very flawed nation," and, hopefully, Colin Kaepernick will find another country more suited to his desires and then move there. However, this is my country, and I have no intention of shaming it.
Granted, America has lots of problems, but you work to solve them. You don't do this by comparing someone who deliberately snubs a patriotic tradition with those who created the greatest democracy the world has ever known.
R. E. Heid, Baltimore