I went to an American military base for the opening ceremony of a local baseball season in which there would be teams and competition in all age groups, from five and six year olds to high school kids. In the opening ceremony, each of the teams, dressed in their uniforms, stood on the base paths and were introduced, and on the first and third base lines were two teams that would play each other in an “exhibition” game that day. One was an American high school baseball team from the base, and the other was a local German team comprised of teenagers who were either fully German (both parents were German) or were half German (one parent was German, one American). Into this teams-ringed infield marched a local high school color guard: four young ladies in military uniform, the two on the outside carrying bolt action rifles at shoulder arms, one on the inside carrying the American flag, the other on the inside carrying the German flag. When the color guard stopped in the middle of the infield, a very loud speaker system played, first, the German national anthem, Deutschland Uber Alles (perhaps the anthem should have been changed after WWII?), and then played the American national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner.
An infield ringed with American and German kids, a color guard carrying the flag of each country, the national anthem of each country -- it was a moving experience, one which exemplified yet again how much has changed since Britain’s troublesome young men had tried to persuade the British Government to stand up to and stop Germany.
How the world has changed. In those days the world feared the dictator, Hitler, and a militarized Germany. Today a democratic Germany is among the most peaceful of nations and the world fears a heavily militarized U.S. -- that’s US, as in us.*
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