Americans at Bristol
September 10, 2016 … Bristol Motor Speedway … the “Battle at Bristol” between Virginia Tech and Tennessee.
It was the most attended game in football history with 154,000 college football fans decked out in red, white, and blue on the day before the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11.
American military members and the Virginia Tech Cadet Corps saluted while standing rigidly at attention as country music star Jennifer Nettles sang the national anthem. Fans in the stands held up cards as part of a huge display of Americans flags on both sides of the stadium, and “USA” was spelled out behind both goal posts.
This was American patriotism on display for the world to see.