I just finished singing it before I saw your post.
I'm leaving for a Memorial Day Celebration, and I sang it for my Dad and my brother.
I'm still wiping tears.
Thank you for your touching posts. After 9-11 I was reminded how powerful this song is, and how much it meant to me. My local radio host Kirby Wilbur starts his morning program by playing a different rendition of this song EVERY DAY! It gives me goosebumps and stirs my heart as well! Once, Michael Savage had everyone stop their cars and listen in silence on their way home after work... FReedom is so precious, I urge every citizen to NOT give away what others died to protect...and was given to us by God.