National Anthem Banned At Goshen College

[Brown Mule]

Freedom! Ain't it great?

It gives people the right to do things with which you don't agree.

Anyhow, anyone who believes Jesus Christ was a pacifist weenie needs to read about the time He threw the moneychangers out of the temple.

I love the description of confederate general Stonewall Jackson-------------" He fought by the old testament , and lived by the new testament"

[Donn]

Maybe they've been reading things like "War is a Racket", by retired US Marine Major General Smedley Butler? (You can find a paragraph excerpt at Butler's wikipedia page - go past the part where he's one of 19 people who have ever received two Medals of Honor and all that stuff, it's about 2/3 of the way down.) Stuff that could get you thinking that big money might be pulling the strings and making these wars happen in many cases. Not that this is true, I'm just saying you can find people who think that way, and then from there, it's a short path to frowning on the use of music for war propaganda. If you subscribe to religious beliefs that don't support war.

If it makes anyone think, good for them. From the way the article reads, though, it's hard to see any sign of that.

[lowpitchmoravian]

Freedom is not free. Even the ability to have the freedom to trash the Star Spangle Banner did not come free.

[TheHatTuba]

Freedom is not free. Even the ability to have the freedom to trash the Star Spangle Banner did not come free.

Nothing is free. Not even air because every time we exhale we put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (C6H12O6 + 6O2 --> 6CO2 + 6H2O)

[Brucom]

I wasn't drafted. I enlisted. I served for five years, seven months, 20 days. (1974-1979)

I think that the majority of able-bodied men did not wait to be drafted after the attack on Pearl Harbor.