Klarinet Archive - Posting 000656.txt from 2001/11

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Thanksgiving Music
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 07:30:29 -0500

Bill Hausmann has corrected me.

> I don't know where you got the idea it was "unofficial." It is very much
> the OFFICIAL US National Anthem!

Bill, I do apologise for this unintentional error. It was my intention to
look up the date of pub. of my book source before I posted, but things
overtook me. Arthur Acheson notes that is has been official since 1931. I`ll
now open my 'history' book - - - - and it says - - - - J. M. Dent & Sons
Ltd, 1937 - so the book must be wrong. It states that the Anthem has never
officially been adopted as the National Anthem, but is used by the Army and
Navy.

DO YOU NOT HAVE AN AIR-FORCE THEN?

Never believe anything you see in the Dent publications - - - -

Tony W.

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