Jim Cornelison’s national anthem strikes the right chord on 9/11 anniversary
By Caroline Que, Yahoo! Local
There were plenty of tributes this weekend to mark the decade since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but a spine-tingling rendition of the national anthem has spilled into the workweek.
As fans chanted "U-S-A! U-S-A!" and a football-field-size American flag unfurled Sunday at Chicago's Soldier Field, Jim Cornelison, the Chicago Blackhawks' full-time national anthem singer and a native of Vienna, Va., took the microphone to open the Bears-Falcons game.
Sports columnist Jim Litke described the tenor's rendition as "booming," noting it was "stirring enough that pregame shows in NFL markets where the local team was out of town used it as a sign off."
But as Eddie Maisonet (@edthesportsfan) put it more succinctly on Twitter: "The dude who sung the Chicago Bears anthem needs to sing every important anthem on national television from here on out. #StrikesGavel."
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