Even if most people had not heard of the 4 Nations hockey tournament that concluded this week, they were thrilled by the national anthem faceoff that accompanied the matches.
Part of this was catharsis: For a while, one would be hard pressed to find a crowd singing along in full to the U.S. National Anthem five years ago. Such a move was socially unacceptable. Kneeling, too, was a prominent reaction.
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