An honor to play the national anthem

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For the homecoming game my sons band teacher wanted him to play the national anthem alone and put his own flare on it. Instead of taking it as an honor that they felt he is good enough at playing the guitar and base to do that he was anything but happy. For quite a few years he has mentioned that with it is such an important song and that it’s not about them. It’s not their own song they shouldn’t be changing it up. He feels like it’s a disgrace to the song. Also he said he would be to nervous to play that song on his own without the rest of the band in case he made a mistake. He didn’t want to ruin such an important song. I told him I understood his thinking but that it truly is such an honor what he was asked to do. I told him to just nicely explain to his teacher how he felt about it. He did tell his teacher and he must have been fine with it. He said one of the other teachers suggested it to his band teacher. He’s had a busy weekend playing music. Friday was a powder puff football game and pep rally he had to play at. Followed by a parade and bonfire both of which he had to play at. Today was the homecoming game he again had to play at. Finally he is getting to relax and decided he was going to go to the dance. He’s never been to one before and was nervous when he left but I’m hoping he has fun. He has really started to come out of his shell this year! I wanted to post a neat photo of a wooden American flag I saw was decorating the store where my daughter works but when I went recently it had been take down so I just chose to take a photo of this totally unrelated item instead to share.