There are some stories that illustrate just how much our country has changed in just the past few years…..and quite honestly defy explanation.
It may have been one of the most jaw-dropping, unpatriotic things ever seen.
Some 50 students from Waynesville Middle School in western North Carolina were at the September 11 memorial recently and had just started singing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” when a guard ordered them to stop.
September 11 memorial officials say groups wishing to perform on the crowded plaza are supposed to pay $35 to apply for a permit and obey a list of rules, such as no amplified sound and no interfering with the flow of traffic.
Teacher Martha Brown said a different security guard had given the OK for her students to sing. But a second guard said, “You just can’t do this. You’ve got to stop now,”
So Brown said she and her students reverently and quietly stopped what they were doing and complied with his request and quietly exited the park.
Video of the incident has sparked outrage and led to an invitation for the students to sing the anthem live on Fox News. Brown and Principal Trevor Putnam joined the students for their performance at the school.
Officials at the Sept. 11 memorial said that their security guards should not have stopped the choir from singing the national anthem on the memorial plaza and are working to ensure that this does not happen again with future student performances.