[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Regarding the other points you mentioned: (God Bless America, Lee Greenwood,
> etc.,): In the past week I've seen "God Bless America" signs EVERYWHERE. They
> are on the sides of apartment buildings, hanging off bridges, on firehouses
> and on roadwork signs -- all over the place. There are flags in pretty much
> every single window or outside every home or apartment in Queens (where I
> live.) I hadn't noticed them. I was too busy carefully watching the people
> around me. I have a friend who went to a Mets game who said that they sang
> God Bless America during the Seventh inning stretch.
They did that at the Astros game this evening. We came home from our
night out sometime during the 5th inning, IIRC, and the friend who was
babysitting was flipping back and forth between the game and the John
Lennon songs concert. She watches a lot of baseball, and when they
started singing "God Bless America" for the 7th inning stretch, she
indicated that she'd been seeing a lot of that lately. It's just the
Done Thing right now.
(BTW, the two things we wanted to happen in that game -- the Astros
winning and Bonds hitting his 70th homer for the year -- didn't happen,
either of them. Well, Bonds has 2 more games in that ballpark, maybe
he'll hit 70 yet.)
Julia
