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Good thing it was 91 degrees in Indianapolis on Sunday (May 27). Because before she sang
the national anthem for the Indianapolis 500, Martina McBride told
me the sweltering temps were just right for her. “Heat is actually good for my voice,” she said. “I’ve done the anthem so
many times — at NASCAR races, baseball games, the World Series, football games, hockey games — and so many have been in
such extreme weather. In Pittsburgh, once it was three degrees when I did it. So this is no problem.”
I was there at
the race to hear McBride’s anthem, right after Florence Henderson did “God Bless America” and right before Bishop Christopher
Coyne called upon God with a moving invocation. And McBride was right about
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