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I don’t know about you, but I am getting a little tired of our national anthem getting botched.  A little interpretation is fine, as long as the actual melody is there, and there is little excuse for not getting the words right.

I supposed children no longer sing the national anthem in school?  I was watching the news yesterday while they were reporting on  Christina Aguilera’s performance at the Super Bowl and they felt the need to tell us what the words should have been.  That’s when it occurred to me that there are many, many people who don’t know the words.  I have read since that her rehersal was better and maybe she was just nervous.  I guess I can see that.  It was the Superbowl.  But it seems to happen so often.

I will never forget, back in the mid 1970′s, I took a trip to Toronto, Canada.  It was during thier Dominion Day celebration.  I was at an outdoor concert where the orchestra played a special composition that ended in a rendition of “O Canada!,” the Canadian national anthem.  It seemed that everyone in the audience stood and sang the song with such feeling that it almost brought tears to my eyes.  These people loved thier country.  For a moment I considered defecting.

Somewhere we have lost out patriotism and national pride.  Some may say it is because of racism or something like that, but I don’t think so.  Americans of all races and creeds love this country (even if they don’t like a lot of things about it.)  I’m not sure where or when it started.

Probably when we stopped praying in school, also.