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I am of the same opinion with the War Room on the issue of the national anthem in Spanish. I don't care. With a war, high gas prices, many people having no health insurance, etc., going on, I think there are more important things on which to spend my energy. Here's the key issue for me, for all those who are complaining--do you (presumably native-born American) even know all of the national anthem (in English)? Can you sing the entire song? I think it's more of an issue that many English-speaking Americans don't even know the whole song. According to a survey I saw this week, 61% of respondents didn't know all of it (the first verse, that is). I know I don't. I learned the French national anthem in a high school French class and can sing that a lot better. Instead of a Congressional resolution demanding the anthem be sung in English, how about demanding that every one must learn it before they finish elementary school? That makes more sense to me as a native-born American and third-generation native of the nation's capital.
