Stupid random thought (no big surprises, I’m sure) but I was thinking of the song God Bless America (which I don’t care if they do or do not sing at Flyers or Yankees games) and whether or not it fills me with a warm feeling of patriotism.
It doesn’t.
But there is one thing that does, without fail, every time.
I get goosebumps every time I hear an ambulance siren, look in my rearview mirror, and see everyone pull off to the side of the road to let the ambulance come through.
I know, I’m a heartless ass hole who never loved the Queen, but I can’t help myself.
I think people who have only lived in USA (& Canada, EU, Japan) may struggle to understand what you mean.
Here is a visual to help them (this is not a great example from the USA - it looks like NYC and american drivers are a lot better generally)
Everytime I hear someone say, or I read President Trump.
I mean if thats not proof, that anyone can achieve anything, no matter how unqualified, or unprepared, Its what makes America great… damn, I am tearing up just thinking Pres. Trump… now I need a drink
Standing and saluting the flag for the national anthem before sporting events.
Watching people exercise their Constitutional right to kneel during the national anthem, knowing that most people watching and complaining about it are sitting on their couches.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I saw my father cry only two times in my entire life. Once when his dad died and once when the US beat the Soviets in hockey.
you won’t know this song unless you were alive and sentient in 1963, but if you were, and you were proximate to a transistor radio, you definitely heard this, because it spent a month at #1.
so, anyway, this song was in my head. so i googled it. and the group was “the essex” and they were all active duty marines. including the lead singer, a woman. the group didn’t go very far, professionally, because they all kept getting deployed in various places.
but i just got this wave of patriotism over me about that. i don’t know why. can’t explain it. just, knowing they were all marines, and they both did their duties, and in their spare time recorded the top song in the country. and i wanted to share that here. but didn’t really know how. until this thread came up.
Standing and saluting the flag for the national anthem before sporting events.
Watching people exercise their Constitutional right to kneel during the national anthem, knowing that most people watching and complaining about it are sitting on their couches.
All the argument about the national anthem just pisses me off because both sides are using it as a tool to make a statement. We should just support the folks who serve in the military and leave it at that. I don’t care what goes on in a football game.
Pretty sure both sides of the kneel don’t kneel support the folks who serve, never was about the military (well I mean except they payed the NFL a shit ton of money for the performances)
Standing and saluting the flag for the national anthem before sporting events.
Watching people exercise their Constitutional right to kneel during the national anthem, knowing that most people watching and complaining about it are sitting on their couches.
All the argument about the national anthem just pisses me off because both sides are using it as a tool to make a statement. We should just support the folks who serve in the military and leave it at that. I don’t care what goes on in a football game.
Pretty sure both sides of the kneel don’t kneel support the folks who serve, never was about the military (well I mean except they payed the NFL a shit ton of money for the performances)
Not sure exactly what you’r referring to, but the notion that NFL never stood on the sidelines during the national anthem before the military started working with the NFL is a myth:
The only thing that changed was prime time games. Before 2009, players stayed in the locker room for TV timing issues for prime time games; players were always on the sidelines for the 1pm and 4pm games.
In late Dec 1989, I was finishing up “resistance training†as part of USAF survival school. I had just spent 24 hours + in a simulated POW camp, and it was late at night. All the “POWs†were gathered around the flagpole and were told we would salute the enemy flag when their anthem played. To a man, we all turned our backs on the flagpole, determined not to budge. Suddenly we heard the strains of the US national anthem, and we all suddenly whipped around to see old Glory lit up with lights and streaming in the wind. Everyone snapped to attention and saluted, with a lot guys tearing up. That was how they ended the training, and that was an especially patriotic moment for me.
