Security guards at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City ordered a North Carolina middle school choir to stop its rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” this week because, as one guard explained, such an outburst of patriotism honoring dead Americans requires a permit.

Facebook user Connie Shepherd Scanlon posted video of the incident on Wednesday.

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