JJ Husker

Once again, though, you tie those together. And pride for country is not being pushed out in the least.

If your religion losing "norm" status makes it feel like things are falling apart in the country, perhaps you can appreciate the alienating experience it is for those outside the "norm" lines some would like to keep.

"We don't lose Country by moving on from a wartime tradition of tying entertainment events to displays of patriotism."

+1 zoogs.

Zoogs, you are a very well educated young man and while we share a lot of the same thought process, the very words coming from your keyboard are ones that come from your perspective not mine. I am not going to go all in to the religious part, I recognize that subject is void of any substantial I outcome on wither side. However, on Country, just like in MRI's situation where we all need to try to recognize a part of what he and Black Americans have had to deal with, unless you have served...