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

So many of you are sadly missing the point. It’s not about anthems or ‘mentioning’ America. The very fact that 90,000 Jews can celebrate Torah openly in a football stadium, that Jews can live a completely unhindered Orthodox Torah way of life and enforce Torah law in virtually every arena (kashrus, eruv, mikvah, yeshiva, shul, and on and on), that Jews don’t have to hide in attics fearing pogroms and attacks; speaks volumes of the gargantuan level of Hakaras Hatov that is owed, by every Jew, EQUALLY to HaKodosh Boruch Hu and to the United States of America. A vast majority of us fail to recognize and show that appreciation that should be displayed relentlessly. Every moment spent by anyone searching for and dissecting secular/Tumah/treif meanings and values in the American anthem or any other patriotic song/statement/message,is one less moment allocated to proper Hakaras Hatov. And any failure, at any level or moment in time, to portray this gratitude borders on Chilul Hashem; a pretty bad sin from what I’ve read. G-D BLESS AMERICA!