Larry: (...) end the show every night with a kind of different view point, ususally using music. And tonight we welcome Martina McBride, the award winning country music singer, who has a runaway hit 'Independence Day'. In fact the day after the attack you sang the national anthem at a public vigil in Nashville? What was that like

Martina: It was very moving and very... Just a feeling like you've never had in a public gathering before. (Martina singing the anthem plays in the background) You know, there were about 2000 people there and normally people would be (...) and they'd be chatting and talking and visiting and it was just quiet. Everybody was quiet. They (...), they sat. And it was...

Larry: Was it hard to sing?

Martina: It was very hard to sing. It was the first time I sang the anthem since tha attack and you know, we get to ask to sing the anthem all the time at ball games and...

Larry: You sang it last night at the Green Bay Washington.

Martina: I did. But since the attack it just takes...  it's just all different.

A clip of Martina singing the anthem is shown.

Larry: (...) asked you to sing "Independence Day". Did you write that?

Martina: No I didn't, it was written by a lady named Gretchen Peters.

Larry: But it's not about war and peace, is it?

Martina: No, it's... Well it's about a different kind of war and peace. It's a def... It's actually about domestic violence. And the song came out about seven years ago and it's still my, what they call I guess your career hit today. And it just really affected a lot of people. But when I heard... I was thinking about what to say to this group of people and the chorus just really fits the situation as well as what it was written for.

Larry: Which we're gonna hear in a couple of minutes over a montage. It's... We understand you're also... You're donating 50.000 $ to the Red Cross from the sales of the Greatest Hits album.

Martina: Mhm. We... Yeah, I... I feel like it's... You know, I think we're all kind of struggling with what can we do to help. Everybody want to know what is it that we can do to help and... And this is a way that, you know, the Greatest Hits album was already released and on its way to the stores... There was kind of no holding back, otherwise we probably would have waited a little while to release it.

Larry: So giving back?

Martina: Yeah. I mean it's a way that we can help.

Larry: You grew up in rural Kansas. That must be very patriotic country, right?

Martina: Definitely.

Larry: And you had this (...) the flag on a (...)

Martina: Well I did. But I tell you, I... In my whole life... I'm 35 and I've never, I don't think, felt patriotism or what it really means to be an American til now.

Larry: Martina, you're a... You're a beautiful girl, a great, wonderful mother.

Martina: Thank you.

Larry: A great star. And I thank you for all you're doing.

Martina: Thank you. Thanks for having me.

Larry: My pleasure. Martina McBride! And here she is overlooking the landscape that once was in our montage with "Independence Day".

The montage plays.