Merriam-Webster defines Patriotism as, “love for or devotion to ones country.” They also define National Anthem as “a song that praises a particular country and that is officially accepted as the country’s song.”
Now it’s one thing for people to stand and sing the anthem when told to or when an announcement is made. But for men and women to voluntarily stand and sing the anthem? Now that is true love for country.
Uncle Sam would be proud.
At a children’s baseball game, the announcer states that they would not be playing the national anthem due to technical difficulties. It happens. He goes on to say that the game can start too.
But where other countries would have just let it go, these men and women aren’t having it. This is America!
Listen to the crowd’s reaction.
After the announcement is made, the people in the crowd shout “No!” with obvious disbelief. So what do they do? The ballgame can wait. These awesome men and women stand and slowly start singing the Star Spangled Banner.
“O say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?”
Hats off. Hands over the heart.
The kids were already in their dugouts but as soon as they heard the singing, they all ran out and formed a line, joining their parents and fans in song. These kids were taught well!
Blue shirts on the right, red shirts to the left, but uniting them is the love for motherland.
“And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave”
Go and and applaud yourselves!
The umpire even faces the crowd and gives what looks like a thumbs up sign. That was pretty epic.
“I served for 32 years, Army then Air force. This is the America I defended and fought for!”
Says a man in the comments.
Since 1931.
That’s when it became the official anthem. Attorney and amateur poet Francis Scott Key watched US soldiers take heavy fire from British naval forces in September of 1814. In the early hours of September 13, he saw soldiers raise the American flag over Fort McHenry in Baltimore.
Key wrote the initial verse on the backside of a letter as he watched the flag waving over the fort that fateful morning. It was initially called “Defence of Fort M’Henry” and it spread to the east coast. The rest is history.
That baseball game may have been fun but it didn’t matter who won or lost that day. In fact, they all won. So what if there were technical difficulties experienced? At the end of the day, they showed everyone what makes America great.
Because really, how many nations can you truly and honestly say, would do the same thing? They all stood with pride. Young and old, men and women, all under that blue October sky and for those few minutes, they were heroes as well.
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