Martina before she sang the National Anthem on September 12:

"I wanna thank you all for coming here tonight and being with each other and lending support to each other. I'm supposed to sing the National Anthem and I want to do that and I will do that, but first... Sometimes emotions at a time like this are best expressed by music and this came to my mind today and it says how I feel and I wanted to sing it."

She sings "Independence Day" chorus.

The footage during the ceremony:

Martina: I'm Martina McBride. In this trying time that we are facing together, it is especially important that you talk with your children. Listen to them carefully, talk with them. They have a lot of questions and they need you to help them (..) through everything that they're feeling. Right now they probably just need for you to be close to them. So please take the time to talk with your children.

(...) Martina McBride watched the horriying story (...) from her home.

Martina: When we saw that huge cloud of... the dust (...) breathe and people running...

(...) When the towers came down?

Martina: Yeah. And I mean... I've been to New York a lot and the terror that they must have felt was just... it just... my heart was in my throat.

(...) Martina says she was on an emotional roller-coaster that didn't seem real.

Martina: I think our generation, we've been raised, I mean we have seen those movies...

(...) Right.

Martina: Those kind of movies. And it's hard to remember that you're not watching a movie. Do you know what I mean? That's real.

(...) Martina wanted to join the (...) because she says it's what being an American is all about.

Martina: We pull together in times of crisis, we have incredible (...) and reseliance (???). We have compassion, and it just... it's just part of what it's all about for me. I also thought it was a really good lesson for my daughter, who is six and can really understand a little bit about what's going on. And for her to see, to know of the tragedy, and to be able to see how we pull together as a nation.

(...) Right.

Martina: On a local level. I mean how we in Nashville pull together and stand next, right next to each other, side by side, heart to heart.

(...) Martina said she's been very careful how much of the details she gives her daughter Delaney. But she's trying to explain the unexplainable the best way she can.

Martina: I'm Martina McBride. Lets show the world what we Americans are made of. We can do something to help. (...) urges everyone to call 18000 Help Now, which is the Red Cross. Also call the Stalvation Army at 18000 (...). Please do it now!