Word: jingoistic
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...when the country was at war, there was Berlin banging the drum at the head of the parade. He had often used military metaphors to invigorate his lyrics - remember that Alexander's bugle call was "So natural that you want to go to war" - and thus was primed with jingoist jingles when America did go to war. In 1917, Berlin scored with "For Your Country and My Country," "I?m Gonna Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind," "Let?s All Be Americans Now? and a mother?s fond lament about her wayward soldier son, "They Were...