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Dad’s spontaneous anthem performance brings ‘everyone in the gym to tears’ before high-school basketball game

In a glimpse of the vast reservoir of patriotism that lies beneath the surface of American life, one parent stood tall when the sound system failed recently before the start of a high school basketball game.

Last Friday the Waverly High Tigers and the Portsmouth West High Senators were preparing for their game in West Portsmouth, Ohio.

The time came for the masked crowd to rise for the “Star-Spangled Banner” when a complication arose.

Nope. This was not the NFL; nobody decided to kneel in protest.

The sound system failed to work, leading to moments of silence amid foot-shuffling.

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