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Old 20-04-2008, 23:46
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Originally Posted by marc26 View Post
i dont really disagree with you, but within each country it does bring the country together
no more so than the Miracle on Ice
it may have seemed a trvial hockey games, but US beating the Russians when there were a lot of bleak times in the US lifted the whole country

And I COMPLELTELY disagree with you here. The "miracle on ice" was just another way we Americans felt GOOD about ourselves in the post Cold War Era. You were.... what? Nine? and you got it straight? Brilliant!

Anything that makes a country feel GOOD about themselves... is a slap in the face of another country...
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