Children playing drums inside a school gymnasium with wooden floors and white-red walls, wearing black shirts with red ties and black pants; drumsticks visible. 1:49
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Band kid loses a cymbal and salutes instead

Of all the times to drop a cymbal, the national anthem has to be the worst. more

The drumline stands in a school gym in black shirts, red ties and black pants. The anthem is under way when one of the cymbals gets away from a high school player and falls.

You can't crash with one cymbal. So he salutes. He does it fast, as if it had been the plan all along.

Children playing drums inside a school gymnasium with wooden floors and white-red walls, wearing black shirts with red ties and black pants; drumsticks visible. The headline runs in white letters across the lower third.Save
Of all the times to drop a cymbal, the national anthem has to be the worst.

The players around him make the moment even better. A girl in the line looks over in surprise and then starts to laugh. The snare player in the middle glances down for a beat and goes back to his roll like nothing happened.

The anthem has tripped up famous singers in front of packed stadiums. Nat King Cole once forgot the words at a ballgame and warned others never to sing it there. This kid had no words to forget, only a cymbal to lose, and he still got through it.

People can't let the salute go. One calls it cymbalic. Another says he must still be saluting to this day, and a former cymbal player says the save was amazing. One more says that if they were his band director, he would get a hug and an A-plus. When the clapping comes, at least one listener is sure it was for him.