Dear Editor: I gaze at my newly arrived Badger football season tickets with mixed emotions. Although the games themselves continue to charm, what is getting very unnerving is the rapidly growing corporate-military intrusion on a recreational activity.
As a military veteran, I’ve seen far too much military hardware. Is the dangerous flyover of inherently unstable combat aircraft an essential part of any college athletic event? Or are these recurring displays of weapons another example of what political thinkers from Plato to Eisenhower have warned us about — the intrusion of the military-industrial complex into every aspect of our national life?