Ever since I was a young boy (many, many years ago, about 60) I would get a proud tear in my eye whenever we sang “America, the Beautiful” in school, church or wherever. The words hold power for me to ...

“America the Beautiful” began to play as Underwood ... Underwood then said to the crowd, “You know the words, help me out here,” before singing the tune a cappella. The “American Idol ...

Anyway, the great virtue of “America the Beautiful” is that it’s actually about a place: namely, America. It celebrates the land that we’re rightly proud to call home, with its purple ...