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Baseball player under attack for saying college shouldn’t have banned Star-Spangled Banner
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Student baseball player Mike Milligan is embarrassed that Goshen College where he is pursuing a degree has banned playing the “Star-Spangled Banner” at athletic events. Why? Because the song is violent. Francis Scott Key was sitting in a British prison ship, worried that America might not survive the War of 1812. The White House had been torched…
Is it really illegal now to sing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at the Lincoln Memorial?
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Is it really against the law to sing America’s national anthem while you are visiting the Lincoln Memorial on the Washington, D.C. national mall? Yes, according to the National Park Service, which administers the memorial. The ban was discovered recently when a group of high school students touring Washington, D.C spontaneously broke into…
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