wade moore
09-12-2010, 10:19 AM
I was at the W&M home Football game against Virginia Military Institute yesterday...
We had a 9/11 moment of silence, then a student came out to sing the national anthem.
The mic didn't work.
They fiddled with it, still didn't work.
Announcer thanks the student and they close up shop, no anthem.
My Mother-In-Law turns to me and says, "if we were good Americans, we would have just sung it".
Not 2 seconds later, you start to hear this dull noise come from the student section (probably.. idano.. 3k of the 11k at the game)... then you realize, they're singing the anthem. By about mid-way through, the entire stadium was singing.
Cool moment in general, let alone on 9/11 while hosting a football team of players that will be out there supporting the country in uniform when they graduate.
We had a 9/11 moment of silence, then a student came out to sing the national anthem.
The mic didn't work.
They fiddled with it, still didn't work.
Announcer thanks the student and they close up shop, no anthem.
My Mother-In-Law turns to me and says, "if we were good Americans, we would have just sung it".
Not 2 seconds later, you start to hear this dull noise come from the student section (probably.. idano.. 3k of the 11k at the game)... then you realize, they're singing the anthem. By about mid-way through, the entire stadium was singing.
Cool moment in general, let alone on 9/11 while hosting a football team of players that will be out there supporting the country in uniform when they graduate.