I'm thinking things like flagpoles in the yard.
Like you waste however much money and resources to keep your non-native grass around and they drop in a 60 foot pole into it to be able to fly an American flag and flag for whatever shitty college you went to.
What other things are there?
I think this is an artifact representative of American culture prior to the Vietnam War.
Growing up in the 90's I think I only ever heard one person call their dad sir, and it was when we got caught drinking passionfruit vodka in a friend's basement.
"The American Military Family" cohort/trope has changed a lot over the past 50 years or so.
my dad beat it into me so I pretty much addressed all adults as "sir/mam" until like a year ago, when I turned 20
Yeah this sir/maam "parenting strategy," I think, was kind of the result of the camo-humping culture and PTSD of the post-WWII era that (according to my analysis) was kinda stifled off by the anti-war sentiments common during the Vietnam War era.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying America doesn't worship the military now (because we most certainly do) just that before it was like a.... participatory worship whereas now it's more like a distanced reverence?
Maybe I'm not expressing my thoughts well, this is a pretty abstract concept in my head I haven't really put to words yet.