On October 8, 1987, a Kate Smith statue was dedicated outside the Spectrum in Philadelphia before the Flyers game vs. the Montreal Canadiens. It is shown here at its current location near the Wells Fargo Center, the Flyers' home since 1996.
Later.
Thank you
Many think this should be our national anthem.
Thank you. to those I’ve pinged, Please watch it.
On October 8, 1987, a Kate Smith statue was dedicated outside the Spectrum in Philadelphia before the Flyers game vs. the Montreal Canadiens. It is shown here at its current location near the Wells Fargo Center, the Flyers' home since 1996.
I offer quiet internal personal thanks to those who fought and sacrificed on this Memorial Day.
Dad saw action with the USMC in the pacific during WW 2. He hated ceremony. Didn’t dress up, didn’t march in parades, didn’t go to parades and generally didn’t like those who did.....thought of them as posers. He remained in uniform as a member of NYs finest after the war for another 23 years . He couldn’t wait to get out of that uniform either. (The ceremonial NYPD honor guard at his funeral was nice....as was the Marine Corp honor guard at the national cemetery.he probably would have hated it)
I didn’t serve and am neither proud or ashamed of that fact. It is what it is.
I thank those who served and have personally thanked those I come across in uniform. But like dad there is something about the pomp and ceremony I don’t like. So in honor of dad and all the others who served I will watch WW 2 In Color on the history channel and later Texas Rising.
Semper Fi Dad.
Wonderful video — made me shiver and then pray!
God what a voice. I miss her, no doubt she is a National Treasure. Too bad today’s generation do not know her.
This is, of course, from a movie made several years later. The announcer at the beginning sets the date as 1939. In fact, Kate Smith introduced the song on November 10th, 1938. A recording of that occasion exists—and there are some interesting differences in the 1938 lyrics—a whiff of “America First.”
The original lyrics, written in 1917, included this line..
"..Stand beside her, and guide her, to the right, with a light, form above...."
When he gave Kate Smith the song, he changed the phrase, given the rise of Nazism and Fascism.
From my perspective, America now, more than ever, needs to be guided to the right, AND the light..
Nobody could sing that song like Kate Smith. I remember watching her on TV as a kid.
Can’t miss Ronald Reagan in that.
Wow, thanks!