Youre an easy crowd. On behalf of the board and the whole march for life team i would like to welcome you to the 45th annual march for life. [ cheers and applause ] you are part of the largest annual human rights demonstration in the world. We will begin just as we should. I will welcome to the stage to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. He is from the knights of columbus of Catholic University of america. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [ cheers and applause ] thank you very much. Now im absolutely delighted to introduce you to mckenna donahue, a ninth Grade Student who travelled from buzzards bay, massachusetts. She going to lead us in the national anthem. O say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched