Anthem Uproar Analysis

In “Anthem Uproar” from Junior Scholastic, by Carl Stoffers describes his Colin Kaepernick sitting during the national anthem. In the beginning it explains the 49ers quarterback sit while the national anthem was playing and made a bunch of drama through the NFL. In the next section, how the national anthem was started and where it was first played, it was first started 1931 and it was first played at baseball games in the 1800s although at that time it was just considered a poem. In the third section it explains why the national anthem was so important to the United States and why other countries don't have a tradition like we have with the anthem. The national anthem was so important to the US because of the immigrants that bounded together.