Autistic-Man Singing National Anthem gets Help from fans

[RIHMFIRE]

this is great!
http://www.godvine.com/Autistic-Man-Sin ... p-407.html

[pokey]

cool

[Blaine]

[vancelw]

It's a neat story, but it's kinda sad that a crowd singing the national anthem makes news.

My wife, who is not nearly as rabidly patriotic and I am, lamented one day that she wondered when it became embarrassing to sing the Star Spangled Banner. She's right! When it's played nowadays, it's deathly quiet except for the person leading the singing.

We ought to raise the roof as American's every time the national anthem is sung.

I guess some people think it's rude to sing over the person at the mic, but they ought to be leading the singing, not doing it all for us.

[Blaine]

It's a neat story, but it's kinda sad that a crowd singing the national anthem makes news.

My wife, who is not nearly as rabidly patriotic and I am, lamented one day that she wondered when it became embarrassing to sing the Star Spangled Banner. She's right! When it's played nowadays, it's deathly quiet except for the person leading the singing.

We ought to raise the roof as American's every time the national anthem is sung.

I guess some people think it's rude to sing over the person at the mic, but they ought to be leading the singing, not doing it all for us.

On the other hand, since the singers at events seem to have their own personal style and arrangment, is it ok to listen to their "version" and show grand appreciation afterward? Maybe/Yes/No??

[FWiedner]

Not to get off the point of the post, it's great that people in general have such compassion for those who have lesser gifts, or those who might encounter difficulties while attempting something worthwhile.

Like TR said:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."


IMO, this sometimes noble sense of charity is why the housing market crashed.

[Blaine]

IMO, this sometimes noble ense of charity is why the housing market crashed.

You lost me on that one....

[vancelw]

On the other hand, since the singers at events seem to have their own personal style and arrangment, is it ok to listen to their "version" and show grand appreciation afterward? Maybe/Yes/No??

The answer is always a definite "maybe."

I think having professionals sing at premiere sporting events is what caused the audience to stop participating. I'm getting ready to watch NASCAR now. Any driver who doesn't put his hand over his heart during the anthem-I hope they wreck

[Nate Kiowa Jones]

IMO, this sometimes noble ense of charity is why the housing market crashed.

You lost me on that one....

I got it but I don't see it as noble. How noble can it be when you are giving away someone else's money?

[Rusty]

The really sad part is a lot of people think the last 2 words in the National Anthem are "PLAY BALL!"

[adirondakjack]

It's a neat story, but it's kinda sad that a crowd singing the national anthem makes news.

My wife, who is not nearly as rabidly patriotic and I am, lamented one day that she wondered when it became embarrassing to sing the Star Spangled Banner. She's right! When it's played nowadays, it's deathly quiet except for the person leading the singing.

We ought to raise the roof as American's every time the national anthem is sung.

I guess some people think it's rude to sing over the person at the mic, but they ought to be leading the singing, not doing it all for us.

At our annual NYS SASS championships, (hosted by my home club), they play a recorded National Anthem at the opening cerimony. A couple of years ago when the song started, 250 or so cowboys jammed silently into a pavilion, almost without thinking about it, I just started singing along. By halfway through, I expect about 100 voices could be heard. The next year we had closer to 300 shooters, and about 200 of em sang. If ya start singing, and folks come to expect it, they will too.....

[RIHMFIRE]

The really sad part is a lot of people think the last 2 words in the National Anthem are "PLAY BALL!"

I thought it was...Gentleman, start your engines

I still think its great that they asked him to sing....
and it was great that the fans helped him out singing it....when he had a little trouble
and he must have felt really good when thay cheered for him at the end...

[Hobie]

You do NOT want to hear me sing. I ALWAYS sing along with the anthem, you might see a tear or two as well.

[FWiedner]

IMO, this sometimes noble sense of charity is why the housing market crashed.

You lost me on that one....

Good people are fast to jump in and help those whom they can sense need and deserve help. As Americans, we hate to see those of our fellows whom we can see are plainly giving it their best shot, fall. We want them to succeed. We pitch in and give them a hand up.

With regard to the housing market, an effort was made to assist people with lesser resources to fulfill their "American Dream. The intent was to give them a hand up to economic stability by making them property owners. I believe that loan and insurance programs were created in an attempt to help many people, and the volume of those efforts was simply too great to sustain when the economy took a down-turn.

JMO.

[Cliff]

That was great. At first I thought it was one of our elected politicians, then found out it was a nice person. ATB

[JerryB]

My wife and I saw the little ten year old girl on Fox News this morning sing our National Anthem, like it should be done. I sure got blessed hearing it.