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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas cheerleaders honor 9/11 with routine set to music, panicky phone calls, and news reports
A video uploaded to the Internet on Facebook and YouTube on Friday has been viewed over 18 million times and shows a cheerleading squad at a Texas high school performing a tribute to the victims of 9/11 accompanied by patriotic music interspersed with panicked phone calls from the day along with snippets of President George W. Bush addressing the nation.
Crystalynn Petoskey, a student at Lumberton High School, uploaded a video of the routine to Facebook on Friday, writing, Cheerleaders 9/11 routine. So good, itll make you cry.
The routine begins with some cheerleaders being held aloft to Lee Greenwoods Proud to Be An America only to begin tumbling and doing gymnastic flips as audio describing the Twin Towers collapsing is played.
The bizarre routine ended on an unsurprising patriotic note with the cheerleaders holding up the letters U-S-A.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/watch-texas-cheerleaders-honor-911-with-routine-set-to-music-panicky-phone-calls-and-news-reports/comments/
Monk06
(7,675 posts)Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Word is, the skater playing Saddam does a mean triple axel.
Skittles
(153,442 posts)but I must say, it is so terribly misguided and endorsed by so many people you have to wonder....WTF is going on
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)If nothing else, it was seriously American heartland material.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Human101948
(3,457 posts)Rah rah rah America! Now let' go to war!
Arkansas Granny
(31,550 posts)but I can't bring myself to click to find out.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Even brought a tear to my eye.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,409 posts)Javaman
(62,548 posts)if anyone knows bullshit jingoism, it's texas.
I live in Austin.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)I'm probably right in not wanting to entertain that sort of thing.
It just seemed like it would be a deluded exercise in bad taste and massively inappropriate.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)"gymnastic flips as audio describing the Twin Towers collapsing is played"
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