As anyone who knows me will tell you, I take a back seat to no man when it comes to love of my country. I’m as patriotic an American as you’ll find anywhere. But even though I’ve lived half a lifetime, I’ve never seen so much pure American Awesomeness in one place as I have here. This is everything that’s good and right about this great land of ours expressed in one 9-minute clip. I mean, Tyler Busby had me at “Sequined American Flag Vest,” but then he goes right ahead into “I’m Proud to Be an American” and that gospel hymn and just nails them. Seriously, it’s like his voice is a combination of Fergie and Jesus. Then, even though that’s an impossible act to follow, Aaron Cady comes along with his pure charisma and rocks “God Bless America” on the keyboard. It’s everything that makes the US of A great all rolled into one. Their music is like the sound of George Washington tag teamming with Hulk Hogan, Abe Lincoln winning the Daytona 500 and the Statue of Liberty stomping a bunch of terrorists at the Super Bowl while a bald eagle pecks their eyes out. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But 10 year olds in sequin vests singing patriotic anthems have marked the time. It’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again.
So well done, lads. Maybe next year you can team up for my personal anthem, “Rock, Flag and Eagle:”
@JerryThornton1
testtubebabies says at July 3, 2012 at 11:40 am
does anyone on this website ever write about the red sox anymore?
Numero Two says at July 3, 2012 at 11:42 am
Charlie Kelly is a great American.
bequigs says at July 3, 2012 at 11:45 am
looks like the set of between 2 ferns…thats the only interesting thing about this
tornopen says at July 3, 2012 at 11:47 am
I am sure his ultra Christian, Baby Jesus loving parents are going to be thrilled when they catch little skippy here in a locked closet with a youth pastor.
America is great!
bdemps15 says at July 3, 2012 at 11:55 am
shocker you wrote this Jerry. Between two ferns.
dydjsix says at July 3, 2012 at 12:19 pm
hey another shitty blog by jerry thornton laden with sad attempts for humor. what else is new.
CANCEL PHILLY SITE says at July 3, 2012 at 4:29 pm
100$ says that kid would KO pres
eboe6666 says at July 3, 2012 at 4:32 pm
This is what we get on a holiday week I guess. Junk.
Albert Pooholes says at July 3, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Was anybody actually able to watch more than 6 seconds of this video/read more than 6 words of Jerry Thornton’s commentary on it? Fucking insufferable.
stripperlover says at July 3, 2012 at 1:59 pm
This country is no longer awesome. It’s been eroding for a long time and Obama held the last nail while the idiotic Supreme court drove it in. Next year’s 4th of July will be when we put an picture of Lenin up in the White House right under Barack Obama’s. Thanks liberal Massachusetts assholes.
tornopen says at July 5, 2012 at 1:12 pm
@stripperlover — thank the Jesus freak assholes who kept putting Bush in office. The problems of this country trace back to our wars. If we never went to war in Iraq… our country would be a better place.
first says at July 5, 2012 at 2:41 pm
@stripperlover – if you know of a country that’s more awesome than the U.S., don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. We won’t miss you, brah.