A Song In Our Hearts - and In The Air - Thanks Mark!

 You're right, Richard. "O Canada" has been a popular song in Vancouver for some years now. Yes, we should thank Mark, because the spontaneous singing of our national anthem at Olympic events and on the streets was undoubtedly started by Vancouver residents. I can well imagine one of them being my brother Rob, who works downtown, and who has been singing "O Canada" to his children every night at bedtime. They are now 6 and 8, and it's still their most-requested lullaby. These two little Canadian patriots didn't have to look far for Canadian flags to take to an Olympic hockey game... they had lots left over from their Canada Day party last year. Because I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket, I have been lip-synching every time I've attended an event where O Canada has been sung, so as not to offend the ears of people nearby. But what of those people nearby? They should have been singing their hearts out but, if they were singing at all, they were mumbling. Maybe from now on it will be different. Maybe everyone else will sing, and I will feel free to mumble.

Thanks, Richard, and thanks again, Mark.

-- Kay