Is this a ball game or a political rally?

[Sydnie]

They couldn't afford to have their OWN WWII special so they just thought they would throw it in with this game? WTF!?!

Are we going to be seeing 60 anniversary celebrations included in things all year long? Why not just have a special week devoted to it, with the after school specials and the movie of the week side by side with the live memorial special and get it over with?

Not that I have a problem with remembering it at all. Just have a problem with it being exploited ad nauseum all year long.

</end rant>

[wtmusic]

1. Just to remind us of the parallels btwn WWII and Iraq

which were, what again? :wtf:

[Sydnie]

2. Instead of the "Greatest Generation" we will be remembered as

the "Moran Generation". How pathetic for us, huh?

[catzies]

3. And so, a meme is born. That's great. Copyright it now.

n/t

[havocmom]

4. Exploiting vets & sports to push an military agenda?

The undercurrent of that per-game pomp seems somehow like a replay of nationalism run amok from a bygone (or is it) era.






http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/olympics.html

<snip> Nazification of Sport

The Nazification of all aspects of German life extended even to sport. A staunch Nazi close to Hitler, Hans von Tschammer und Osten, headed the Reich Sports Office, which oversaw all sports bodies and clubs, including the German Olympic Committee planning the 1936 Games.

"German sport has only one task: to strengthen the character of the German people, imbuing it with the fighting spirit and steadfast camaraderie necessary in the struggle for its existence."-- Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, April 23, 1933

The government harnessed sport as part of its drive to strengthen the "Aryan race," to exercise political control over its citizens, and to prepare German youth for war. "Non-Aryans"--Jewish or part-Jewish and Gypsy athletes--were systematically excluded from German sports facilities and associations. They were allowed marginal training facilities, and their opportunities to compete were limited. </userdefined>