HUFFINGTON POST – No, U.S. Air Force Band, That Song You’re Singing Is Not ‘Greensleeves’
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- For the second year in a row, the U.S. Air Force band has surprised a crowd of Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum visitors with a “holiday flash mob,” wowing an unsuspecting audience with over 100 Air Force Band instrumentalists and vocalists appearing out of nowhere and performing the most overtly religious “holiday” music possible.
- But don’t go thinking that this is a government is promoting religion or anything. The Air Force Band was careful to stick a disclaimer at the beginning of this year’s video that says: “No Federal endorsement is intended or authorized.” Of course, that line of the disclaimer comes right after a line that says that the video is “approved by the Department of the Air Force,” but we’re apparently not supposed to see any contradiction at all in their saying that the video is approved by the Air Force while somehow at the same time not endorsed or authorized by the federal government.
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