Outkast – Fancy Boys Club

20 years ago I was boots on ground in Iraq for the first time. Roughly 1.5 million Americans can say something similar as veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).
Many were in their 20s, and for many it was their first experience ever leaving the US.
I don’t know that I’ll ever be able to adequately put into words what deployment felt like. I write fun goofy articles. I don’t write about the fucked-shit. I don’t have the language.
I don’t have the nerve.

But I’m not writing about my experiences in Iraq. I’m writing about something that came before. Something I still to this day can’t get out of my brain. A bit of brainwashing that I don’t think any generation of US troops before could have ever imagined.

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Let’s call this part the final part, The Closer: The National League.

Part One, The Starter, I delved into a bit of history regarding our ballyhooed National Anthem as well as provided somewhat cogent thoughts on what songs could replace the National Anthem for each American League city. Part Two, The Closer, we will hit the National League cities, but first a few questions:

Why the fuck are we playing the National Anthem at all? What patriotism comprises the beginning of a ballgame? Should we play a game before we battle another country? Is that what we should be doing now? Send our troops over to a foreign country and force them to play an American game before war games commence?

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Military Atrocities, Nü Metal, & Me.

Dear MLB owners – play something else besides the National Anthem, Part Two