Toni Smith...the quiet hero.

I'm sure I'm coming a little late to this story. I heard Charles Barkley mention Toni Smith last week on CNN but wasn't aware of the story.

Thankfully good folks like Democratic Veteran are on top of the story, and he provides a great link to ESPN's Ralph Wiley.

Two million hits on a once-lonely Manhattanville College Web site in response says the Quiet War of Toni Smith has been effectively transmitted out to the world. This was not her intent, to become TV programming, to become debate material for the rest of us. She is a 21-year-old sociology major who stands facing away from the American flag during the playing of the pregame National Anthem before her collegiate games. Big deal. She did not begin doing this for notoriety. It was her quiet, private expression to herself of her own thoughts, her own ideas and moral judgments.

Things you'd want your own 21-year-old daughter to do.

Go read this...