i was a junior in high school when i learned it.
i was standing in a stall in the girl's locker room changing my clothes (after showering at the school because that's what cross country runners do after practice ends at 6:30 and you have class at 7).
i started singing.
for some reason, the national anthem was my current theme song. okay, so it wasn't really a theme song, more just a random song that had a way of popping into my head more than any other song (hence the title of this post--so patriotic. yep, that's me. anyways...).
so i was singing.
and then my best friend asked me why i kept randomly breaking out in the star-spangled banner.
i was confused.
i was not singing the star-spangled banner.
i was singing the national anthem! gosh.
so i, in all my stupidity, asked: "if this is the star-spangled banner, then what is the national anthem?"
dead.
silence.
then laughter.
then the reply: "um. the star-spangled banner and the national anthem are definitely the same song. fool." (okay so she probably didn't say fool because she's nicer than that, but i'm sure she was thinking it.)
fool is right. i felt stupid--as i probably should have. i was a junior in high school, after all. i probably should have known these things. but seriously, why does a song need two names? who did that?
but now i know. and now i'm more patriotic than ever.
thank you, best friend, for leading me to my most patriotic ways and teaching me something i should have known long ago.
what would i do without you?
p.s. happy memorial day weekend!
2 comments:
Haha I love this amy. If it makes you feel any better, once in 5th grade I was trying to describe the Utah state flag to someone in Arizona and it went something like this: "Um, so it has red and white stripes, and then some blue with stars". AKA the American flag. Not the Utah flag. Good thing we are so patriotic :) Miss you!
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ha ha, I was laughing so hard while I was reading this and then i had to explain to my mom what I was laughing about because she was more than curious.
That was seriously one of my favorite high school moments. I remember exactly where we were when you had your amazing discovery that the Star Spangled Banner IS our country's national anthem. You are SO patriotic.
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