July 24, 2023
You don't have to play if you don't like the anthem
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
Once again, we have athletes making fools of themselves.
The latest episode from the ingrates comes from the Women's World Cup soccer match.
For the record, I am not a big soccer fan, but it's always nice to cheer for the home team. In my case, it's the nice country that adopted my family years ago. In the case of these young women, it's the country that gave them this opportunity.
Enter the fools and here is the story:
The US Women's National Soccer team was victorious in its opening match of the 2023 FIFA World Cup — but they're not winners to fans left fuming after the most of the athletes stayed silent during the national anthem.
Before the reigning women's World Cup champion team went on to crush newcomer Vietnam 3-0, many of the players stood quietly as the "Star Spangled Banner" blared through New Zealand's Eden Park arena.
"Can someone teach [the United States Women's Soccer team] the words to the 'Star Spangled Banner'? Their silence was deafening," one person quipped.
My guess is that this is more than not knowing the words.
I don't know all the words to the anthem, but you can do better than go mute. You can say, "Oh, say, can you see," and you can definitely say with passion the line about "the land of the free and the home of the brave."
I think that it's cool these days among the young to knock the U.S.
more
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/you_dont_have_to_play_if_you_dont_like_the_anthem.html
