the Star Spangled Banner

So this last week-end our country celebrated a relatively modern ritual called the Super Bowl.  The big football game where the two leagues that compete in the USA get down to the final game of the season. It has become a BIG deal and this year the event was held here, in my neighborhood (relatively speaking) in Arlington, Texas.

With many great sports event that we celebrate in this country we begin the game with a tribute to our Nation with the signing of the National Anthem.  You would think that a song that every American has sung hundreds of time would be burned into our memory and that words would be like breathing, something we know and do without thinking but not so this year.  Christina Aguilera (a modern rock star) was selected to sing at this event.  I use the word "sing" rather loosely because what she did was not exactly something I call singing.

What a shame that that people who live in the land of the free and the home of brave can't get the words right to their National Anthem....she couldn't even stay on pitch.  What ever happened to the good old days when we just enjoyed a simple rendition of the US National Anthem as done by the Academy Choirs.