re: #170 TarHellion

I dated an Austrian au pair back in the early 1990s. She could not believe teams played the national anthem before games. She associated it with Nazism from the 30s. How prescient she would be. I love the national anthem. But the way it has been perverted.

It’s something I never really thought about until recently. I remember finding it weird when we started singing God Bless America during the 7th inning stretch after 9/11. Now I feel the same way about the national anthem. If our patriotism is so weak that we need to sing the song before sporting events, then maybe we aren’t we who thought we were