Texas A & M
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RP: 84000 people at a college football game. I love entering into the stadium, I love becoming part of that mass. I don’t really care who wins but I do like to be part of it…
…George Bush Senior was there as well. It was ‘military recognition’ night, so all of the veterans from different
wars were there, and they were being recognised during the game. A gulf War vet had a badge pinned onto him.
I’ve never seen anything like it.
DCR: That combination of military and sport is quite strange to us. You can’t imagine that happening here
just before a test match starts at Lords. It’s just not conceivable to us, and so it’s a very alien concept. But not in America; they parade their heroes. They are heroes, and it makes sense to them to celebrate that at mass events. You know, if you’ve 85,000 people watching a ball game, an awful lot of them will be veterans of one war or another…
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