Ken Hoffman is the Houston Chronicle columnist lite. He is featured on the entertainment pages concerned mostly with promoting high calorie fast food, bicycle races, pet adoptions and Little League Baseball.
We had a local Houston team from Pearland make it to the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania where they lost 10 to 0 to a team from Hawaii (who all were required to show birth certificates because of that age thing).
Ken got his snit in a snot over the stadium playing Bruce Springsteen’s BORN IN THE USA. A deeply felt belief that an anti war song is not proper for children while a REQUIREMENT from them all to sing a pro war song, The Star Spangled War Song is no problem. A misunderstood song, used wrong again
I am hard pressed to think of anything I have read in the Republican Lite Houston Chronicle that I have disagreed with more. Well other than everything by Jonah Goldberg, Charles Krauthammer and George Will which one or the other graces the editorial pages most everyday.
These kids are forced to listen to a violent pro war song, The Star Spangled War Banner before every game, in every sport, in every stadium in America and are expected to sing along.
How about we make it fair, after all, everyone can agree that War is Hell. So let’s not only play the song in every stadium before every game in which the Star Spangled War Song is required, but have the words scroll along the scoreboards so everyone understands the words and can sing along.
"Born down in a dead man’s town,
the first kick I took was when I hit the ground,
you end up like a dog that’s been beat too much,
till you spend half your life just covering up.
I got in a little hometown jam,
so they put a rifle in my hands,
sent me off to a foreign land,
to go and kill the yellow man."