If you saw the opening of the professional football championship game that I am supposedly prohibited from saying, you probably saw the singing of the National Anthem. I am not one to cast stones, and in the same situation I probably couldn’t have even remembered my name, let alone the words of a song.
That being said, here are some examples of how it should be sung:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKCVS57j284[/youtube]or like this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kSBFLiv9_4[/youtube]or especially like this, sung during Desert Storm in 1991 (click on the image, then click on “Watch on YouTube”):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupsPg5H6aE&feature=fvw[/youtube]