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CarGuru > Chrysler > Dieter Zetsche and Chrysler launches plan to promote national anthem 10 March 2005 16:37:15
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Dieter Zetsche and Chrysler launches plan to promote national anthem

MoPar Man 10 March 2005 16:37:15
 I guess it takes a German to help Americans learn their national
anthem. Or to stir up the passions of nationalism that seem to be
flagging as this jobless recovery continues. Perhaps what is needed
is another invasion and the few heady months of fanatical patriotism
that followed. They painted some Dodge Ram's with the flag back then
- how bout some Jeeps?

Better that Americans sing the anthem while filling their SUV's and
pickups with gas. Would take their mind off the price.

Too bad the one line in the anthem that is most representative of the
American way of life is never sung:

"Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,"

I wonder if Dieter will help Americans learn that verse.

Sing it Dieter, sing for me. Get Celine to help you.

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Politically correct (bastardized/popula­r) version:
http://www.usflag.o­rg/thenationalanthem­.html

Full version:
http://en.wikipedia­.org/wiki/The_Star-S­pangled_Banner

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http://www.detnews.­com/2005/metro/0503/­10/C01-113233.htm
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Chrysler is in tune with nation's mood as it launches plan to promote
anthem
By Laura Berman / The Detroit News
O-o say can you see how times have quickly changed?

Last year, Chrysler Group CEO Dieter Zetsche played cool at the
Detroit auto show, stepping out of a minivan wearing a streetwise
fedora on his head. That was back in the days -- can you even remember
them? -- when the Dodge Boys thought it might be cool to sponsor the
Lingerie Bowl, a disastrous foray into Super Bowl counter-programming­.

But today, Zetsche will display a keen sense of the current national
zeitgeist when he kicks off the National Anthem Project -- an effort
sponsored by Jeep and the National Association for Music Education --
that aims to put oomph into music education by emphasizing the singing
of patriotic songs.

In this case, they're boosting the Star Spangled Banner, our much
maligned and largely unsung national anthem, which is about to make a
comeback given the current fascination with values symbolism.

From pledge of allegiance reinstatement to a move for the Ten
Commandments in every town square and bare wall, God-and-country
boilerplate is back in fashion.

"I think there's been a little bit of a mood swing," acknowledges
Jason Vines, Chrysler's vice-president for corporate communications,
who thinks the new sponsorship is a perfect fit for the Jeep brand -
which an American World War II general once called "America's greatest
weapon."

A recent Harris survey found that only 39 percent of Americans could
recite the anthem's third line ("through the perilous fight"), while
61 percent don't know all of the words.

That ought not come as a surprise. There's an old story, probably
apocryphal, that during World War II, the Americans used the anthem as
a way to root out German spies: A captive who knew the words to the
fourth verse would be shot on sight, it is said, since no real
Americans know the words.

As one of those who can warble all the way to "and the home of the
brave, play ball," it's not the singing that gives me pause, but the
undercurrent to the trend. The sudden emphasis on displaying totems of
faith in God and country -- from flying ribbons on cars to saying the
pledge - is double-edged.

Vines, the Chrysler spokesman, calls the campaign "uncontroversial,"
and while that's true, that's what also ought to make us uneasy.

In insecure times, flag-waving is invariably resurgent. The related
debates, about God in the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of
Allegiance, are fixated on a similar idea: That Americans need credos,
codes, and symbols to prove who we are.

And, more importantly, who we are not. It's no coincidence that during
the last great flag-waving era of the 1950s, a Congressional committee
sought to root out those deemed "un-American."

National anthem education is surely a smart and unobjectionable move
for Jeep, with its Liberty model. Times have changed and, after a few
lumbering moves, Chrysler is in sync.

This time, instead of using lingerie-clad models to sell trucks, the
company's using another simple association to sell its vehicles. Skip
the girls, go for God and country.

And you can hum it, too.
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