09-16-2016, 11:59 PM
Whoever it was who asked about when the National Anthem started being played at sporting events -- it was 1918, during World War I.
http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/6957...n-magazine
An interesting side:
Goshen College, associated with the Mennonites (a Peace Church), has chosen to substitute America the Beautiful for the Star-Spangled Banner at college sporting events because America the Beautiful has no references to war .
Now here's a really bloodthirsty national anthem, one dropped after the country was defeated in World War II:
Maritsa rushes,
stained with blood,
A widow wails,
fiercely wounded.
Chorus:
March, march,
with our general,
Let's fly into battle
and crush the enemy!
Forward!
Bulgarians,
the whole world is watching.
Into a winning battle,
let's gloriously go.
Chorus
The Balkan lion
into a titanic battle
with enemy's hordes
leads us, flying.
Chorus
Young and strong,
in the rattle of battle
We're destined to gain
laurels to claim.
Chorus
We're the nation,
for pride, freedom,
for dear fatherland
who knows how to die.
[i]Chorus
[/i]It well fits a culture of exaggerated nationalism
http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/6957...n-magazine
An interesting side:
Goshen College, associated with the Mennonites (a Peace Church), has chosen to substitute America the Beautiful for the Star-Spangled Banner at college sporting events because America the Beautiful has no references to war .
Now here's a really bloodthirsty national anthem, one dropped after the country was defeated in World War II:
Maritsa rushes,
stained with blood,
A widow wails,
fiercely wounded.
Chorus:
March, march,
with our general,
Let's fly into battle
and crush the enemy!
Forward!
Bulgarians,
the whole world is watching.
Into a winning battle,
let's gloriously go.
Chorus
The Balkan lion
into a titanic battle
with enemy's hordes
leads us, flying.
Chorus
Young and strong,
in the rattle of battle
We're destined to gain
laurels to claim.
Chorus
We're the nation,
for pride, freedom,
for dear fatherland
who knows how to die.
[i]Chorus
[/i]It well fits a culture of exaggerated nationalism
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.