An 89-year-old Navy veteran led a room in song
Anthony Chatowsky asked to sing to the flag at his senior living community's veterans pinning ceremony. The room joined in, and the video passed 17,000 views.
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Anthony Chatowsky, an 89-year-old Navy veteran, asked to sing to the flag during a veterans pinning ceremony at his senior living community in Middletown, NBC 10 WJAR reported. He sang "You're a Grand Old Flag," and the room joined him. A video of the impromptu performance passed 17,000 views. The song was not on a program he had been assigned. He asked, people sang with him, and the recording spread past that view count.
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Anthony Chatowsky is 89 and a Navy veteran in Middletown, Rhode Island. At a veterans pinning ceremony in his senior living community, he asked to sing to the flag, NBC 10 reported. He sang "You're a Grand Old Flag," and the whole room joined in. A video of the moment passed 17,000 views. The song was his idea in the middle of the ceremony. The views are how many times people had watched the video when the station reported it, a number that can keep growing.
- Why might one person's request to sing change a whole ceremony?
- What does it mean when a video passes a view count, instead of stopping there?
- How is a pinning ceremony different from a concert?
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