I saw a Facebook post the other day about performing the National Anthem before sporting events. I consider myself a good American. I have heard many, many renditions performed before sporting events .... and then ....
That heavy set comedian who will soon, I guess, be back on that TV show during the day .... I can't mention the name of it ...... my teeth ache just thinking of it .... and, I have not teeth, just dentures. But years ago SHE ...... I can't think of the word to use .... SHE .... offered her rendition of the song, in .......... I can't say voice ........ anyway she did the song before a Dodgers game....... it was ..... well, more than awful ..... worse than that ..... my opinion on topic started changing that day.
All my life I have attended "functions or events" of one kind or another. All preceded with The National Anthem, The Pledge of Allegiance, or a prayer ,,,, some sort of opening.
Now, no prayers, no pledge, and I am OK with no song. Why, way too many "interpretations" of the song ........ mostly really bad ones.
So, YES, I am all for NOT having the National Anthem performed before anything. Unless, they all were performed, in person or on a recording, by the US Army band ..... and, under fear of ejection from the event ........ no applauding or cheering until the song was concluded.
I think NONE is better than the sometimes brutal attempts to perform it ..............
