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CNN Saturday Morning News

California 2-Year-Old Sings `God Bless America'

Aired November 24, 2001 - 08:58   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, here's a story that'll warm your heart. She's only 2 years old, but Erin Bradley inspires patriotism in everyone she meets. After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Erin learned the words to "God Bless America." Now, she just can't stop singing.

Our Santa Maria, California affiliate KCOY introduces us to the baby patriot.

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ERIN BRADLEY (singing): God bless America, land that I love.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'd say it started around the tragedy of September 11.

STAFF SERGEANT CHRISTOPHER BRADLEY, ERIN'S DAD: We just started, you know, singing the song with her and she just caught on.

ERIN BRADLEY (singing): Stand beside her and guide her.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And we go out and we're at restaurants or malls, she just starts singing and we get crowds around us and it just really seems to uplift people, especially at this time.

ERIN BRADLEY (singing): In the mountain, in the prairie, to the oceans, white with foam.

CHRISTOPHER BRADLEY: It's brought tears to some people because, you know, with everything that's going on, everybody seems to be more patriotic now.

ERIN BRADLEY (singing): God bless America, my home sweet home.

Let me go. Let me go.

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PHILLIPS: That story, once again, comes from our CNN affiliate KCOY in Santa Maria, California.

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