4岁男孩对着白头海雕唱《天佑美国》走红：视频获数百万次播放，动物园送全家会员请他回访再唱
美国德克萨斯州弗洛雷斯维尔市4岁男孩Ezekiel Saldana，在学校组织前往圣安东尼奥动物园的校外活动中，走到白头海雕展区前唱起《天佑美国》，他母亲拍下的这段视频在网上走红，播放量达到数百万次。据News 4 San Antonio报道，Ezekiel当时正在为退伍军人节学唱这首歌。
Ezekiel的父母Alexandra Delgado与Johnny Saldana当天都在活动现场。Ezekiel说，他是自己主动要求加入课后合唱团的，一直在练习这首歌。在动物园里，他先看到一面美国国旗，接着看到白头海雕，就走上前唱了起来。被问到为什么要唱，他说：「因为这首歌讲的是美国。」Delgado说，看着儿子自己把国旗、白头海雕和这首歌联系到一起，是一个让她很骄傲的时刻，这段视频本来没想过会走红。Saldana说，儿子在家里也是这样，性格外向，视频里展现的就是他本来的样子。
据圣安东尼奥动物园介绍，视频里的白头海雕名叫Chinook，是一只南方白头海雕，1995年孵化，2017年来到该动物园。它左翼受伤，无法持续飞行，与另一只同样因翅膀受伤无法返回野外的白头海雕Haley住在同一展区，由动物园持续照料。展区里的木制美国国旗，是Bandera的Warriors Heart康复机构里正在康复的人们制作的。
视频走红后，圣安东尼奥动物园送给Ezekiel一家四张免费会员资格，有效期到今年年底，并请他们回园参观。回访时，Chinook在展区里停留了足够长的时间，与Ezekiel合了影。Ezekiel还对退伍军人说了谢谢，随后又为Chinook唱了一遍《天佑美国》。被问到喜欢美国什么，他说：「是耶稣创造了它。」
4-Year-Old Boy Goes Viral Singing 'God Bless America' to a Bald Eagle: Video Draws Millions of Views, Zoo Gives Family Memberships and Invites Him Back to Sing Again
Ezekiel Saldana, a 4-year-old from Floresville, Texas, walked up to the bald eagle exhibit during a school field trip to the San Antonio Zoo and sang "God Bless America," and a video his mother filmed of the moment has gone viral, drawing millions of views. According to News 4 San Antonio, Ezekiel had been learning the song for Veterans Day.
His parents, Alexandra Delgado and Johnny Saldana, were both on the field trip. Ezekiel had asked to join his after-school choir this year and had been practicing the song. At the zoo, he spotted an American flag and then the bald eagle, and started singing. Asked why he sang, he said, "Because it was about America." Delgado said watching him put the flag, the eagle and the song together on his own was a proud moment, and that the video was never supposed to go viral. Saldana said his son has the same larger-than-life personality at home, and that what viewers saw in the video was simply who he is.
According to the San Antonio Zoo, the bald eagle in the video is Chinook, a Southern bald eagle who hatched in 1995 and came to the zoo in 2017. A left wing injury prevents him from sustaining flight, and he shares his habitat with Haley, another bald eagle who could not return to the wild after a wing injury. Both receive ongoing care at the zoo. The wooden American flag in the exhibit was made by people in recovery at Warriors Heart in Bandera, the zoo said.
After the video went viral, the zoo gave Ezekiel's family four free memberships through the end of the year and invited them back. On the return visit, Chinook stayed out long enough for a photo with Ezekiel before heading in for the night. Ezekiel thanked veterans for their service, and then sang "God Bless America" for Chinook again. Asked what he loves about America, he said, "That Jesus made it."
来源：News 4 San Antonio
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图片来源：资料图：白头海雕（图源：Wikimedia Commons，CC BY-SA 3.0） | File photo: a bald eagle (Source: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)
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