When you are not wearing a hat, do you put your hand over your heart when the National Anthem is sung at an event? Or just stand respectfully?
by 
Alex P. Keaton
ANSWERS: 21
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I stand respectfully
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Stand respectfully and sing along.
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I put my hand over my heart
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Stand respectfully, The hand-over-heart is a very American thing.
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I put my hand over my heart. If I am wearing a hat, I take it off in respect and then put my hand over my heart. If I am wearing a hat, it is a military hat and I am in uniform and I salute. That's the only reason for a male to wear a hat during the National Anthem.
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I don't really think much of that nationalistic nonsense, so I do my best not to be affected by it.
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Stand, hands clasped behind my back, no singing.
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i stand silently
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When I am in view of the American flag during the National Anthem, I put my hand over my heart. If not, like at work everyday when they play the National Anthem before the start of the Greyhound races and I can't see the flag from where I stand, I just stand respectfully still. But I am always moved by the unison of respect and pride.
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I will stand but not out of respect. And won't until there is a legitimate government in the USA; if the USA is involved...other countries I will do as those countries do for respect to that country.
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I'm English, and it isn't our custom to put our hands over our hearts during the National Anthem. I would only stand if I was actually at the event, rather than watching it on television.
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I stand up strait with my hands clasped behind my back and sing along. Francis Scott Key's story and the story behind the song always makes me show respect.
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At the baseball game, about 35 or 40 a year, I will stand at full attention, feet at a 90, hat removed, hand over heart, facing the Flag of Our Nation -- shades stay on. For when the Canadian team shows and "Oh, Canada" is sung, I will stand, hat removed, arms at side, normal stance, facing flag, shades stay on. Am also kind of proud I know the words to this Anthem as well.
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Hand over heart and I'm usually not wearing a hat, sometimes a baseball cap.
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Depends on the mood. For a football (soccer) match : stand respectfully and sing along. For a national event : stand respectfully, hands in the back. We French rarely put our hands over our hearts. It's a cultural thing I guess. But we do respect the hymn and the flag, only, it's a more "internal" kind of respect. We respect it in our minds but don't necessarily express it with our bodies by doing gestures or that sort of things. Usually, it's just a stand-still hands in our back respectful position. The hats always go down though. No hats whatsoever. It's considered very disrespectful. As for the flag, if you're interested, we do respect it but in a somewhat less intense way. Dropping the flag is painful but not necessarily a crime or an offense. Although there IS a law in France that specifies that if you're going to put the flag of a different country somewhere, the French flag has to stand by its side. You can actually get a fine if you don't respect that law, and even civil service (like cleaning the streets and stuff). Hope all this helps.
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I stand respectfully.
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I stand with my hand over my heart. Our freedom means even more to me now that my son spent a year fighting the war in Iraq. I thank God every day that he came home to us.
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I always place my hand over the heart.
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respectfully hand over heart, no hat.
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Yes, but only when I'm not wearing a hat
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I was raised that it is the hand over the heart for the pledge of allegiance. The national anthem gets respectful silence or singing along.
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