you haven't suffered until you've had to sit through a buncha majorettes sing this in a 103 degree park in Hattiesburg before the jazz acts started...

that said, it's easy to see why military families like it: "and I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me". After 'Nam, lotta people want to hear that over and over to make up for a time when they think they never heard it, and who can blame them.

that said, if they could just perform it without cloying it so much....did the servicemen at least do a 'tight' rendition?