This is a very special moment as this may be the last chance the Von Trapp family has to sing together as a family for a very very long time. You see, at this very moment, members of the Gestapo are waiting off stage to accompany Captain Von Trapp to Bremerhaven where he will be commanded to take a commission in the Navy of the Third Reich.
Won’t you stand with me and sing Edelweiss...all of you who love Austria and love freedom?
Isn’t it funny how we think we have progressed so far beyond all of that and can’t believe it will ever happen again and especially not in America. Oh how wrong those of us who believe that are. One day we were warned we will wake up in communism (fascism is the same thing). Welcome to that day.