Nate Boyer is a former U.S. Army Green Beret and war veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. After leaving active duty service, Nate made the football team at the University of Texas as a walk-on. In 2015, Nate signed a free-agent contract with the Seattle Seahawks and played in one game before being cut from the team. When then San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began protesting what he sees as oppression of African Americans and people of color by sitting during the national anthem, Nate wrote an open letter to Kaepernick in the Army Times. That resulted in a meeting between the two men and ultimately in Kaepernick taking a knee for the first time during the national anthem instead of sitting. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews.

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