>How many major sports events have been used to sell war or
>nationalism? How many ballets, operas and plays?
Every opening day and numerous days in between you get military flyovers at, I think, every major league baseball park in the country. You also get the National Anthem before every game and after 9/11 you frequently, all too frequently, get God Bless America instead of Take Me Out to the Ballgame during the 7th inning stretch. Invariably, when it gets to the "land of the free" stanza, there's wide applause.