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Originally Posted by Mister Yamoto
I've seen every one of those groups that you mention recognized at sporting events. Even plumbers get their moment during the Pete the plumber Macho Man segments. And I don't see soldiers getting special recognition at literally every sporting event in North America. Not the games I go to.
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Plumbers get their moment when one of them pays for a promotion?
And yes, you see soldiers honoured at every sporting event. We even do it here where we honour a soldier - who is basically just standing in as a proxy for the military as a whole - at nearly every Flames game.
That is most certainly not what happens for any other group. I can't even remember the last time we had a single night dedicated to police/fire/first responders at a Flames game. We did give construction workers a pre-season game for their work in restoring the Dome after the flood though.
Respecting the military as it exists today, and respecting the veterans who served in the past does not require that public sporting events become a pulpit for nationalistic jingoism.