what do u think about the American National Anthem being sung?
436034
Keep it in English. It's the national language here and it's our national anthem. Or we can go to Mexico and start doing the same things down there.
972673
One of my favorite songs.\n\nAnd I don't care if there is a message behind it.\n\nBut it is a good idea.
670808
well you can sing the national anthem thats a good one\ngood luck (:D)
1176879
That was an amazing show of support from our most trusted ally. There is not a single word I can think of that describes the gratitude I feel for that single gesture. I can only hope that if any of our allies were attacked in a way such as that the President's Own band would do the same. A nation's top military band playing the anthem of another nation's is something truly remarkable and touching, especially in a time of turmoil such as 9/11. I hope that nobody ever forgets the outpouring of support and sympathy from the English. I will personally never forget how grateful I felt to them when I saw all those people waving American flags outside Buckingham and hearing the Royal Band performing our national anthem, nor should anyone else.
615354
No, you are smart to feel that way.  They come over here and spit on our country and expect to be treated like royalty.  They are depleting our food stamps and medicaid and everything else they can get for free.  They just want a free ride on the backs of Americans.  At school the meican students refuse to say the national anthem in the mornings.  If their country is so great then go back to it.  You don't sit on the Away side and shout out for your Home team unless u want to get your a** kicked.  Pretty soon they will take the National Anthem away because we don't want to offend anybody.  They need to learn some manners.  Everywhere I go I hear that da** spanish music.  Now they want to make Spanish the language of America.  I cry for the future of America.  I wish we could build a wall around it.  They are like a virus destroying us.
824791
There Is A HUGE Difference Between\nWaving / Displaying A (Foreign) Flag In Celebration And Pride\n( ie : Cinco De Mayo, St. Pat's Day)\nAnd Brandishing / Marching Under A Foreign Flag \nIn Protest And An Attempt To Intimidate\n\nMay 1st - You All Shot Yourselves In The Foot\n\nFolks .. \nYou WANT To Be Treated Like AMERICANS \nYet You Will Protest Under A FOREIGN FLAG ... \nAnd You Expect ME To RALLY With You??? \nAnd SUPPORT Your Cause??? \n\nI Think NOT.. \nPerhaps You Should Realize \nExactly What It Is That You Are Trying To Accomplish... \nBecause To ME \nIt Looks Like An INVASION From A Foreign Army .. \n\nAnd I'm Prepared To Defend\n\n\n\nYou Wish To Become AMERICANS \nWith The RIGHTS Of AMERICANS .. \nYet Many Of You REFUSE To SPEAK My/Our LANGUAGE \nAnd REFUSE To Honor My/Our Flag\n \nWell I REFUSE To Let YOU Continue To Burden My Pocket \nAnd The Pockets Of My BROTHERS Of ANY DESCENT\nWho Are "PROUD TO BE AMERICANS" \n\n\nYou Call It INTOLERANCE???\nCall It What YOU Wanna Call It-\nIf It Makes YOU Feel Better-\nCall It RACISM,\nIf It Makes YOU Feel Better\nCall Me A NAZI\nIf It Makes YOU Feel Better\nCall It WHATHEF**KEVERYOU Wanna Call It-\nAs Long As It Makes YOU Feel Better\n\nWhats Gonna Make ME Feel Better???\n\nI Pledge ALLEGIENCE To The FLAG\nOf The UNITED STATES Of AMERICA\n\nI KNOW Im Not A Racist\nI KNOW Im Not A Nazi\nI KNOW Im A PROUD AMERICAN CITIZEN \nAnd A HARDWORKING TAXPAYER\nAnd A MILITARY VETERAN\nAnd NOTHING YOU Call ME Is Gonna Change That\n\nYou DISGRACE My NATION???-\nYou DISGRACE My FLAG???-\nNO SOUP FOR YOU!!!\n\nThe LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY \nBrought This Upon Themselves\n\nThey Created A Racial Divide Within The US\nWE THE PEOPLE Will Close The Gap\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe cannot allow illegals to remain in this country \nbecause it sends the very clear message \nto anyone from any country : \nGo ahead and enter the U.S. illegally. \nNothing will be done to you. \nThe stupid Americans will pay \nto feed you, clothe you, educate your kids \nand pay for your medical care \nwhile they themselves are forced to go without \nbecause they can't afford health insurance \nbecause their tax dollars are paying for you! \n\nHa, Ha! \n\nGo ahead and enter the U.S. illegally \nif you're a terrorist, \nno problem, \ngo ahead and build your cells, \nblow up buildings and schools. \nNothing will happen \nbecause American politicians \nare too cowardly to repel this invasion \nand deport the millions of illegals aready here \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDEPORT ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS UPON DISCOVERY\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTheodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN\n\n"In the first place we should insist \nthat if the immigrant who comes here in good faith \nbecomes an American and assimilates himself to us, \nhe shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, \nfor it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man\nbecause of creed, or birthplace, or origin. \n\nBut this is predicated \nupon the man's becoming in very fact an American, \nand nothing but an American...\nThere can be no divided allegiance here. \n\nAny man who says he is an American, \nbut something else also, isn't an American at all.\n \nWe have room for but one flag, \nthe American flag, \nand this excludes the red flag, \nwhich symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, \njust as much as it excludes any foreign flag \n\nWe have room for but one language here, \nand that is the English language...\nand we have room for but one sole loyalty \nand that is a loyalty to the American people."\n--Theodore Roosevelt 1907\n\nThere is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. \nThe one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, \nof preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all,\nwould be to permit it to become \na tangle of squabbling nationalities. \n— Theodore Roosevelt, \nspeech before the Knights of Columbus, 1915, New York\n\nTo announce that there must
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Perhaps you should discuss this with your school's faculty coordinator of the fair.  If you precede it with an introduction indicating it is dedicated to your mother it might be acceptable.  I would think if there are other US citizens in the audience it would be appreciated.  I've attended concerts here in the US where the national anthem of other countries has been played.  It depends on your intention which should be made clear to the audience.
932122
Its has always been a favourite 'after rugby' song in every club in the land, long before it was taken up by the national team supporters. The inter action of the singers in the clubroom makes a fine spectacle !!! Obviously when it was started to be sung at Twickers the majority knew the words and since then it has been adopted as the team anthem.
380368
Being a legal immigrant, I must say it's about time that those Mexicans either learn the beauty of the English language, or beat it. It isn't that difficult to hold on to your heritage while respecting the country you chose to live in. For goodness' sakes, as much as I respect the Mexican Americans, why isn't the National Anthem sang in Hungarian then? Because then it would only be fair to have it in every language ever migrated to the US.
472716
amercian national anthem/in english only/learn english or go home
523567
I personally find it annoying, but my sisters love it.\n\nIt's a dance song; it would be perfect for your talent show. Good luck!
883663
it wasn't\nThe Detroit-based singer refused to sing the American National Anthem at the World Series in Detroit because he thinks it too "vocally challenging" for him. Instead, he chose to sing "America the Beautiful." Nobody seems to care about that. Why not?\n\nBob Seger could barely contain himself when talking Friday about his opportunity to sing “America the Beautiful” before tonight’s World Series opener. \n\n“They called a couple weeks ago,” Seger said, and then whipped into a whirlwind of all the baseball improbables that happily brought the series to Comerica Park. \n\nThe choice to sing “America” rather than the “Star Spangled Banner” was his call, he said. The national anthem, he said, “is a death trap for singers. ... At 61, you get smarter.”\n\n\nNational Anthem Singers: Game 1: Bob Seger (sang "America the Beautiful"); Game 2: Anita Baker; Game 3: Trace Adkins; Game 4: Nikko Smith (son of Cardinals Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith); Game 5: Billy Ray Cyrus
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics were written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland by British ships in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. It became well known as a patriotic song to the tune of a popular English song, "To Anacreon in Heaven." It was recognized for official use by the United States Navy (1889) and by the White House (1916), and was made the national anthem by a Congressional resolution on March 3, 1931. Although the song has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today.\n\nOn September 3, 1814, Key and John S. Skinner of Baltimore, Maryland, an American prisoner exchange agent, set sail from Baltimore aboard the sloop HMS Minden flying a flag of truce approved by James Madison. Their goal was to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes, the elderly and popular town physician of Upper Marlboro, a friend of Key's who had been captured in Washington, DC and had been accused of harboring British deserters. Key and Skinner boarded the British flagship HMS Tonnant on September 7 and spoke with General Robert Ross and Admiral Alexander Cochrane over dinner, while they also discussed war plans. In the beginning, Ross and Cochrane refused to release Beanes, but relented after Key and Skinner showed them letters written by wounded British prisoners praising Beanes and other Americans for their kind treatment.\n\nBecause Key and Skinner had heard much of the preparations for the Baltimore attack, they were held captive until after the battle, first aboard HMS Surprise, and later back onto the Minden sloop, waiting behind the British fleet. On September 13, at 7 a.m., the British fleet attacked the fort and the Battle of Baltimore was under way. Bombardment of the fort continued until 1 a.m. on September 14, after which some British gunboats attempted to slip past the fort and effect a landing in a cove to the west of it, but they were turned away by gunners at nearby Fort Covington, the city's last line of defense. During the rainy night, Key had witnessed the bombardment and observed that the fort's smaller "storm flag" continued to fly, but once the shelling stopped and it grew dark, he would not know how the battle turned out until dawn. By then, the storm flag had been lowered and the larger main flag had been raised.\n\n \nFrancis Scott Key's original manuscript copy of his Star-Spangled Banner poem. It is now on display at the Maryland Historical Society.Key was inspired by the American victory and the sight of the enormous American flag flying triumphantly above the fort. This flag, with fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, is today on display in the National Museum of American History, a part of the Smithsonian Institution. This flag was restored in 1914 by Amelia Fowler, and again in 1998 as part of an ongoing conservation program.\n\nThe next day, Key wrote a poem aboard the ship on the back of a letter he had in his pocket, continuing to write during the sail. After being released with Skinner in Baltimore at twilight on September 16, Key finished the poem at the Indian Queen Hotel where he was staying, entitling it "Defence of Fort McHenry".\n\nKey gave his poem to his brother-in-law, Judge Joseph H. Nicholson, who recognized that the poem fit the tune of "To Anacreon in Heaven", a popular melody dating from the mid-1760s, written in London by John Stafford Smith. Nicholson took the poem to a printer. These broadside copies, the song's first known printing, were printed anonymously in Baltimore on September 17 — of these, two known copies still exist.\n\nOn September 20, both the Baltimore Patriot and The American printed the song, with the note "Tune: Anacreon in Heaven." The song quickly became popular, with 17 newspapers from Georgia to New Hampshire printing it. Soo
555250
Isn't that the national Anthem for France?
403787
"These immigrants are fighting to embrace this nation."\n\nThat is funny.  Of course, how did I miss it.  Waving a foreign flag, speaking a foreign language, demanding free services, bastardizing the National Anthem.  Sound like their trying to embrace this nation - in a war!\n\nI believe that this is going to backfire on them.  In California we need to stop electing these people who hate living in this country.  That's the only reason I can explain why they would boycott it.
467712
I believe that it is divisive to sing the song in another language.  But what I don't understand is why 2 british guys are behind the production?  Anyways, if the spanish speaking people want to sing a patriot song about the USA why don't they write a new one?
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national anthem at the link below...