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Article Excerpt: "...the school issued a statement that said: Our basketball programs (LSU) have not been on the court for the anthem for the last several seasons. Usually the anthem is played 12 minutes before the game when the team is in the locker room doing final preparations. That was similar to what head coach Kim Mulkey said after the game. ..."
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Article Excerpt: "...a couple more players than usual sang along with “The Star Spangled Banner” while the rest stood quietly. Alex Morgan, Julie Ertz and Lindsey Horan were again amongst the five who sung, along with Trinity Rodman and Emily Fox. The coaching staff was again quiet. The Swedish team, meanwhile, belted out their national anthem “Du Gamla, Du Fria.”...Star forward Megan Rapinoe, who will retire after this World Cup, said in 2019 that she would “never put my hand over my heart” and “probably never sing the national anthem again.”"
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Article Excerpt: "R&B singer and actor Jill Scott blasted America by changing the words of the National Anthem...Essence, a lifestyle magazine that hosts the festival, commented, "Everyone please rise for the only National Anthem we will be recognizing from this day forward. ...Scott has previously said in an interview with Jemele Hill that she has considered leaving America due to the racial climate"
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Snippet of Article: "...The boys were running late to the game when they heard the national anthem playing. That’s when they stopped, took off their hats and placed their hands over their hearts..."
Article Source: www.fox5vegas.comSnippet of Article: "...Lately I have been posting about the NFL players kneeling. I was Navy SEAL for ten years, I served multiple tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa from 2001 through 2014,” declared Navy SEAL veteran Tej Gill, one of Project War Path’s owners, to Breitbart News. “I have lost a lot of my close friends/teammates during the war. NFL Players kneeling really hits home with me and my teammates, I think it’s disgusting, an insult to all veterans, Americans, and especially families of veterans that have been killed and wounded during war..."
Article Source: www.breitbart.comSnippet of Article: "... Dallas Cowboys players will be required to stand for the national anthem, says team owner Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones said players will be required to stand for the anthem and not stay in the locker room prior to the game..."
Article Source: sports.yahoo.comSnippet of Article: "..."I'm going to take a fine this year, why not?" Casey told CNN at an NFL promotional event in London. "I'm going to protest during the flag. That's what I'm going to say now. "... It is what it is, I ain't going to let them stop me from doing what I want to do. If they want to have these battles between players and organizations, this is the way it's going to be." The Titans did not comment ..."
Article Source: www.nfl.comSnippet of Article: "..."The Star Spangled Banner", was ordered played at military and naval occasions by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, but was not designated the national anthem by an Act of Congress until 1931. The words were written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, who had been inspired by the sight of the American flag still flying over Fort McHenry after a night of heavy British bombardment. The text was immediately set to a popular melody of the time, "To Anacreon in Heaven." The National Anthem consists of four verses. On almost every occasion only the first verse is sung..."
Article Source: army.milOh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave'
From the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Snippet of Article: "...No anthem? It was no problem for a Fresno, California, crowd that started booing and then singing the "Star Spangled Banner" at a high school softball championship game after an announcer said the anthem wouldn't be sung. Video of the act of patriotism ...Kayajania called it a "learning experience" and going forward, the anthem will be played at every game..."
Article Source: www.msn.comSnippet of Article: "... statue paid for with pennies contributed by Baltimore school children more than a century ago was found sprayed with red paint Monday morning..."
Article Source: www.baltimoresun.comArticle Title: DAV condemns congressional proposal to cut disability benefits for 1.5 million veterans Article Excerpt: " Congressma...
