star spangled banner lyrics

star spangled banner lyrics

Fortunately, we had to hear the North Carolina Symphony last week as part of the Red, White and Blue Tour. The purpose of the trip was to pay tribute to the men and women who have kept America safe generations and add three concerts in North Carolina plants, including the MCAS Cherry Point.MCAS Base Theater is the largest theater in North Carolina and seats about 2000. The concert was sold out and filled the theater property; group went to lunch, then find and greeted other friends in the theater, like all excited about it as we wait in the evening of patriotic music.

For those readers who haven't attended a military movie, sporting event, or any other official function... it always begins with the playing of The Star Spangled Banner. Something I've experienced since my birth.My father was a World War II veteran, ball turret gunner on B24s with 50 missions over the European Theater and based in Benghazi, Libya. He went on to retire from the United States Air Force. My earliest memories are of standing, with hand over my heart, at the playing of our National Anthem at the beginning of a basketball game or movie. A memory made even more powerful because we were overseas, far away from our American home.

Feeling the strong martial bass of the melody rumble in my stomach and hearing the powerful lyrics of this one special song has always given me goosebumps. From my childhood, then as a teenager at America's Bicentennial celebration, to every movie or event Jason and I attend now, the awe, the reverence the goosebumps have remained the same.