>>"The emotion of the callers telling us about their fathers and sons and brothers who are overseas now and who fought in previous wars was very specific," said Jim Jacobs, president of Jacobs Broadcast Group, which includes WTDR.
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>So how is it that the album went to number 1 and stayed there for weeks if the fans were so outraged? Regardless, it was still the industry that made the decision to drop them from the playlists.

Not those fans who buy records. The other fans. Those who write we-are-extremely-angry-at-this-outrage letters to radio and tv channels and concert organizers. Thanks for the clipboard technique, once upon a time there were only faxes and people had to retype.