Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem -- Star Spangled Banner

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem -- Star Spangled Banner

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Television's Greatest Moments - Superbowl XXV

January 27, 1991 at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida

I still get tears in my eyes when I hear this recording from Whitney Houston. I am a Marine and I love The United States of America and our National Anthem. We are Blessed to live in this Great Country. Whitney sang with such emotion and Pride. Thank You and Bless You Whitney, RIP

Not that I'm the soft/sentimental type, but I remember sitting in a desert hospital's day room watching this woman sing this song and thinking, above all other things, how absolutely beautiful she sang it. It was, BY FAR, to me, the most beautiful rendition ever performed. I was missing my family, my friends, and my country, but for that moment it all was gone. EVERYONE in that day room was crying. 1 paratrooper mike

A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

Carla Ranger - Dallas ISD Education Blog

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem -- Star Spangled Banner

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