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...conclusion of the National Anthem, Major Casey, Adjutant of the Chaplain School, read the order authorizing the citation, which in part is as follows...
...good deal better. And there is warm romantic melody in such songs as Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' and People Will Say, gay lilt in The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, humor in Pore Jud and I Cain't Say No, a roof-buster of an anthem in Oklahoma! If, compared to Lorenz Hart's at their best, Oscar Hammerstein's lyrics lack polish, so after all did frontier Oklahoma...
Good scene: lined up for execution, five Norwegians begin to sing their national anthem. A machine gun stills their song. After a silence, a new voice begins, and the song rises stronger than before from the throats of the whole village...
America has songs for all kinds: let Mr. Pegler and his barbershop quartet amuse themselves with the truly American songs of George M. Cohan; let our soldiers march to the strains of Dixie and the Battle Hymn of the Republic; but let us reserve for our national anthem a composition which expresses the best we have in us-the Star-Spangled Banner...
...chief criticisms of the anthem come from people who, like Mr. Pegler, seem to look upon America with something of the same grade of sentiment with which a college sophomore looks on his alma mater...