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To: goldworldnet who wrote (3293)	4/12/2006 3:22:51 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

I wish you hadn't told me that.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (3293)	4/12/2006 3:48:21 PM
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To: goldworldnet who wrote (3293)	4/12/2006 3:53:02 PM
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The Star-Strangled Banner (NY Times Opinion Page Says the National Anthem is "Overrated") NY Times ^ \| 4/12/2006 \| Lawrence Downes nytimes.com ...Given its circumscribed ceremonial function, and the general shortage of non-sports public gatherings these days, "The Star-Spangled Banner" doesn't get around the way it used to.... A recent Harris poll found that nearly two-thirds of Americans don't even know the words..... The enthusiasm of new Americans for the national anthem only underscores the indifference and ignorance of the rest of us. This gap between what the anthem could be and what it is has prompted the National Association for Music Education, a teachers' group, to create The National Anthem Project to try to reinvigorate "The Star-Spangled Banner." There is, however, another point of view: Some of us feel that the current national anthem is not worth saving.... In "Angels in America," Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, an African-American character named Belize suggests that the difficulty was part of the composer's plan. "The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing," Belize insists. "He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it." Over the years, there have been numerous suggestions for songs that could replace "The Star-Spangled Banner." My suggestion, since I have a weakness for American popular songs, and a sentimental attachment to immigrant success stories, is "God Bless America,".... There are two obvious objections to "God Bless America," of course: the first two words of the song, "God" and "bless." I'll admit this is a problem, although I feel sure that only the twitchiest atheists would object to the nonsectarian deity that "God Bless America" — and "In God We Trust," for that matter — evokes. The song is literally a prayer, but it's far gentler than one a crazed theocrat might concoct....