Posted on 04/26/2016 5:07:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Two tone-deaf security guards at the 9/11 Memorial got tough with some wide-eyed middle school kids visiting the city for the first time from their small town in North Carolina — because they sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
“You have to stop. This is considered a public demonstration!” one guard barked at the patriotic teens, their Waynesville Middle School music teacher, Martha Brown, told The Post.
The guards insisted the group needed a permit to sing, according to Brown.
“Some of the students were very upset and confused. I told the children, ‘This is a place where you need to respect authority even if you don’t understand it,’ ” she said.
The choir was wrapping up a whirlwind field trip to the Big Apple with a somber visit to the 9/11 Memorial on Friday, and had launched into their lilting version of the national anthem when the two guards cut them off.
One mom was so infuriated by the way her kid was treated that she posted footage of the truncated tribute online, where it immediately went viral and now has more than 300,000 views.
“So sad this is happening everywhere. They sounded great. God Bless America!” wrote the mom, Connie Shepherd Scanlon...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
California pipes run through
Beaches suck and so don’t you
Standing there?
I love Ronnie Reagan
I hope you do too
Cause if you can not buy it
Republicans will too
California pipes run through
Beaches suck and so don’t you
Standing there?
I love Ronnie Reagan
I love his movies too
Cause if you can not buy it
Republicans will too
I’m a rad republican
I’m proud to be an American
I’m a rad republican
I’ll gladly sign the draft again
Cause I’m a proud American that’s right
Ronnie Reagan he’s my man
If he can’t do it no one can
America rules
NYC Values.....
Plus they were almost finished with the song, so they should have belted out the last two lines and then went on their way.
The teacher apologized as well which just made me sick.
FNYC!
I wonder if this was the guards interpretation of the rules, petty tyrants all...
“You have to stop. This is considered a public demonstration!
= = =
And what if someone waves a US Flag?
A public demonstration?????
Every Day is beyond the day before.
269 more????
communists or just democrats?
Not sure if they are Americans, but I know for sure their @$$e$.
Good, the children got exposed to some of those New York values.
Truly pathetic. How is it a demonstration to sing the National Anthem?
I recently bought some T-Shirts that state:
"I once took and Oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Be advised, no one has ever relieved me of my duties under the oath."
Interesting to see the reactions from folks - easy enough to determine how they vote by them...
Mine would have been to kick the ‘’rent a cop’’ in the teeth.
“You have to stop. This is considered a public demonstration!” one guard barked at the patriotic teens
Your point being?
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