[SOC] Empire State

[JMcAulay]

At 11:09 AM 06/04/2002 -0500, Rob, W=D8JRM wrote:

>Speaking of America the Beautiful, am I the only one that gets SERIOUSLY
cheesed off
>when that gets sung before a sporting event in place of the national
anthem?  "Here
>to sing the 'national anthem', some whiny anti-war nut job who doesn't
like our real
>anthem because it's about a war and that's not something she agrees with
so she's
>going to sing a song she thinks is better!"
>
>Also, America the Beautiful will never become our national anthem... "God
shed his
>grace on thee" is too *offensive* to another group of whiny nut jobs ;^)


Rob, although you are thoroughly second class, I'll bet you remember when
Willie Nelson sang the US National Anthem at Jimmy Carter's Presidential
inauguration.  He simply left out the parts about "Rockets' Red Glare" and
"Bombs Bursting in Air."  Too combative and gruesome, I guess.

73
John WA6QPL  SOC 263