Reply To: Why was the National Anthem or G-D Bless Ameirica not sung by Siyum Hashas?

Feif un, I hear a chiluk between a high school graduation which includes secular studies teachers who aren’t necessarily Jewish & celebrates a graduation from a secular education that is available “thanks to” a secular country, and a siyum haShas which is done lekavod haTorah, and is not made to celebrate anything secular, nor are any of the people affiliated with the simcha not Jewish. The security forces, which did a terrific job, are there to do their jobs that they get paid to do, and were thanked clearly & explicitly, not abstractly through a recitation of their national anthem.