I strongly disagree with almost everything you said here.

Besides that I think conservative policies have historically proven to be a detriment to any modern western society and these policies are becoming more and more dated as time goes on, having to stand for a president is, pardon my french, sentimental bullshit. It's to artificially elevate the importance of the function. It's why we had to bow to monarchs, that's where it came from.

On top of that, modern day 'patriotism' is just nationalism. A true patriot would have rejected the protocol to stand and told him everything that was wrong about the country, knowing that as 'the people' the president is in service of him, not the other way around. Not to mention that you have no idea what this man did, but you're willing to thank him just because he (I assume) wore a uniform. This (very US specific) cultural trait to just over simplify and blindly glorify anything military is exactly the opposite of what your founding fathers understood patriotism to mean.

And thanking someone for "all your service to this country" sounds great and is well crafted rhetoric by some marketing team somewhere, but we all know what 'service' really stands for. The US is widely regarded to be the biggest threat to world peace and over the last few decades we've seen nothing but death and destruction, directly or indirectly, as a result of US intervention, solely, because every time it served US interest. That last part is what "service to your country" really means, because it has nothing to do with bringing democracy, stability, peace and/or safety to the world. We all know that conflict and war is what drives US economy and we've seen the US instigate more than enough wars and conflicts to know that they like to keep it that way.

But yes, the man looks like he has a good attitude in life. Overcoming physical restrictions for your conviction is commendable. Not sure why that'd make him funny though.