Ch 15, pages 367/368

[Robin Landseadel]

On Apr 16, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Henry Musikar wrote:

> That quote does not suggest that music is more powerful, but only  
> easier, as
> people can easily sing that they are able to be proud to be an  
> American,
> where at least they know they're free, every 4th of July, but if  
> they were
> to read the words, well, to begin with, they wouldn't read the  
> words, but if
> they did, they'd have a difficult time parsing them, as opposed to:
>
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/proud2bnamerikan

Your video clip reminded me of all those confused souls who decided to  
dust off John Lennon's anti-national anthem "Imagine" post 9/11.  I  
guess you gotta sing something.