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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 ...
My response would have been to sing the National anthem.
For shame. Some Liberal could have been, or perhaps was indeed offended. /S
New York values.
Big Brother requires a permit for you to sing or speak in public.
Are the security guards Americans???
Somebody needs a swift kick in the ass and it isn’t these AMERICAN kids.
Let the guards call the cops so they can fully illustrate what idiots they are to the responding patrolmen.
Then conquer we must,
If our cause it be just,
and this be our motto,
In God we do trust,
Gotta love those “New York Values”. Spit
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the War Room!”
Some people should never be given a badge, any kind of badge.
These ASSHATS belong cleaning out the sewers by hand, downstream of the hog farm.
So the guard was fitted and an apology was made by the management.
Right?
fired
“New York values.”
Funny how those things present themselves.
You’re dam right. Sing it, and sing it again. Let the cops call who? And what? Arrest someone? Go back, and sing it, and don’t stop. They can’t put everyone in jail.
Wonder what Iwo, Okinawa, Normandy, and other WWII Vets, combat vets or not,! think of this turn of events?
I realize that we have have jobs for those people with IQs less than 100 - but you’d at least expect them to be Americans.
Both of those two unpatriotic idiots should have been fired. I’m sure there’s some nice socialist country they find a job flipping burgers.
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