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Eugene

(61,914 posts) Mon Apr 25, 2016, 03:31 PM Apr 2016

9/11 Memorial: Security Guard Shouldn't Have Silenced Choir

Source: Associated Press

9/11 Memorial: Security Guard Shouldn't Have Silenced Choir

By KAREN MATTHEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Apr 25, 2016, 3:08 PM ET

Officials at the Sept. 11 memorial in New York said Monday that one of their security guards shouldn't have stopped a North Carolina middle school choir from singing the national anthem on the memorial plaza.

"The guard did not respond appropriately," said the spokeswoman, Kaylee Skaar. "We are working with our security staff to ensure that this does not happen again with future student performances."

Some 50 students from Waynesville Middle School in western North Carolina were at the 9/11 memorial last Wednesday and had just started singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" when a guard told them to stop.

Teacher Martha Brown said Monday that a different security guard had given the OK for her students to sing. But the second guard said, "You just can't do this, you've got to stop now," according to Brown. "So we very reverently and quietly stopped what we were doing and complied with his request and quietly exited the park."

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9/11 Memorial: Security Guard Shouldn't Have Silenced Choir (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2016 OP

Whata maroon annabanana Apr 2016 #1

Have ya been there? zipplewrath Apr 2016 #2

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

1. Whata maroon

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 03:38 PM

Apr 2016

School children singing the National Anthem are clearly a threat to the public..

Honest to Pete!
I'd love to know what kind of reason he had cooked up in his fevered little brain to stop them..

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)

2. Have ya been there?

Reply to annabanana (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 04:20 PM

Apr 2016

The place is typically crawling with people on a nice day. And it is a very open area with no real borders or fences. Too many groups want to start singing, dancing, or other demonstrative activities and it will quickly become a zoo. I'm fairly sure they're under instructions to run off "performance artists" who are looking to make a buck. But it should have been fairly obvious that wasn't what this group was.

That said, they need to get their act together and somehow "approve" certain activities and communicate these approvals to the guards. Truth is, the place is large enough, a performance stage or area could be incorporated. Although I have to say, the quiet of the place in combination with the sounds of the falling water is quite striking.

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