Daylia - The powers that be in baseball and in other sports feel it is necessary to program scoreboards and P.A. systems to "pump up" the crowd with music or videos to get them cheering, clapping or booing. In the "old days" you would get someone playing the organ BETWEEN innings or joining in when a rally started. Where is Jane Jarvis when you need her.

I'm not sure if singing "God Bless America" justifies a war. For way too long conservatives have claimed the right to the flag and patriotism. The left has been wrong to not claim the right to be patriots and have pride in their country.   While many will hear God Bless America and feel that it is a call to support the war, that is only because we have let it happen.   I can love my country and still be against this insane war.

Saying grace a harmless activity? It seems that most wars are fought because of ones religion.

Those that connect the American flag with Hitler's swastika are misguided. There is rhetoric on both sides. We are wrong for being in Iraq, but our intent is not to wipe out the Iraqi people.   Shamefully many Iraqis are indeed being killed, but to compare it to Hitler's planned and methodic executions is very, very wrong.

Ron