Posted: 5/27/2006 1:27:20 AM EDT
Remember when TV stations used to play the national anthem or another patriotic song at the late night signoff with images of America  Our local TV station here used to have aerial photographs of the area along with this song. I leave you with this tonight.
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O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? |
+1, I remember the USAF chior singing with the F-16's flying in formation through the canyon, it may have even been my 1st erection. 
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Ah yes...Late movie came on at 0000hours, usually some old black and white horror movie, then at 0200, the sign off. I remember it vividly, since it wasn't all that long ago. We got 3 channels, channels 4,6, and 27. Channels 4 and 6 were the same programming, but one based in Tallahasee and the other based in Dothan.  Many nights as a kid I turned on my little 3 inch B&W TV set when I should have been fast asleep and watched those old, horrible movies. To this day I can remember watching one where a giant gila monster ravaged a town, and at the end was destroyed by a kid with a hot rod car packed full of nitroglycerin.
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The local station (one of them, at least - I think it's KSFY?) still has signoff, at least on some nights. 1 or 2am? I saw it the other night. It's changed over the years, but right now they play taps (IIRC) and have video of the local artillary NG team (I think) firing a salute. Pretty damn cool if you ask me. 
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