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The Star Spangled Banner-Boston Style

Something for the weekend.  The most stirring rendition of our national anthem I have ever heard, at a Boston Bruins game in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombings.

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Alphatron Shinyskullus
Alphatron Shinyskullus
Saturday, April 20, AD 2013 2:41pm

Wow!

Pat
Pat
Saturday, April 20, AD 2013 5:22pm

Oh, I hope that people remember to sing it so well together always. Thanks for the recording. I have avoided the takeover by pop star/entertainer ‘performances’ for years. Now, what’s the purpose of that chandelier ?

John Nolan
John Nolan
Sunday, April 21, AD 2013 6:06am

Who were the morons whistling while the anthem was being sung? I’ve heard British soccer hooligans doing this, but only to the opposing team’s anthem, never their own.

philip
philip
Sunday, April 21, AD 2013 9:38am

Congratulations to Rene.
He removed himself and the graces flowed.
Thanks Donald.

H. Bunce
H. Bunce
Sunday, April 21, AD 2013 8:39pm

I don’t get it. Celebrating martial law, unconstitutional searches, military troops acing as domestic police, domestic police acting as military troops, illegal and unconstitutional restrictions on the movement and activity of American citizens, a city emptied at the order of The State, commerce and free exchange halted by government….these are causes to celebrate?

American liberty was born in Boston, and it’s death throes are now being seen in Boston a little over 200 years later, and their citizens respond with a rousing rendition of The Star Spangled Banner. Well, not this citizen. Ben Franklin told us “those who are willing to sacrifice liberty for security will have neither”.

So it is true, liberty dies not with a whimper but to the roar of the crowd, a crowd of Boston sheeple.

John Nolan
John Nolan
Monday, April 22, AD 2013 9:25am

I wonder if the Bostonian Irish-Americans, who by their generous donations to Noraid funded terrorist bombings in other people’s cities, are having second thoughts now that they have experienced terrorist bombings in their own.

John Nolan
John Nolan
Monday, April 22, AD 2013 11:35am

Strongbow was a 12th century Norman baron. In fact, we Brits are so resentful of what happened after 1066 we’re going to set off bombs in Rouen.

John Nolan
John Nolan
Monday, April 22, AD 2013 1:06pm

Whether it’s Boston, Belfast or Birmingham, this kind of atrocity cannot be justified whatever the perpetrators’ grievances, real or imagined, are. Those who support these acts are morally culpable. The people killed and maimed by devices left in pubs and shopping centres associated Strongbow only with a brand of cider.

My comment was intended ironically, and I resent the implication that I would countenance indiscriminate terrorist acts against innocent civilians.

And Strongbow would have stayed in Wales had not the King of Leinster, Dermot MacMurrough, invited him and his knights to invade.

John Nolan
John Nolan
Monday, April 22, AD 2013 3:47pm

One of the reasons PIRA split from the ‘Official’ IRA was that the latter was seen to be Marxist. And PIRA, not OIRA (although it had its own splinter group, INLA) was the ‘motor’ which drove the Troubles. The loyalist terror groups were mainly reactive, more openly sectarian, and less well organized. If you concede the point that terrorist bombing can be justified by history, then logically you can’t condemn Al-Qaeda terrorism either – in their case the history is even more recent. You or I might see the US as the ‘good guys’, but the Palestinians and the Moslem world generally are not of this opinion.

The conflict of 1968 -1997, its origins, course and ultimate resolution, has been trawled over and reviewed from all angles, mostly by investigative journalists of every political shade. I followed it closely throughout, and Ed Moloney’s ‘Secret History of the IRA’ filled in a lot of gaps, particularly with regard to the genesis of the ‘peace process’. Some aspects will probably never come to light, but there is enough out there to go on, although it requires an open mind and an ability to distinguish facts from propaganda. One thing stands out – the PIRA bombing campaign, apart from its intrinsic immorality (which was condemned by the Church) not only failed in all its objectives, but was actually counter-productive.

For the record, I believe the Allied policy of saturation bombing, particularly towards the end of the war, was indeed immoral, and even Churchill (who endorsed it) later had misgivings. This doesn’t detract from the bravery of the aircrew of Bomber Command, whose losses were horrendous, and who were never awarded a campaign medal.

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