That’s a long drive. And kind of a pointless one given how often the flag has changed and how long it took us to actually decide we had a national anthem. We got all the way through WWI without a national anthem, if it somehow evaporated tomorrow I think we’d be OK.
Oh, I don't think so. Our common agreed-upon national anthem then was "America," which was loved and memorized with equal passion when I was a child and young man, and often sung in church:
My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From ev'ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!
But, like the last verse of "The Star Spangled Banner," it is the last verse that has disbarred it today:
Our fathers' God to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing.
Long may our land be bright,
With freedom's holy light,
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God our King.
Freedom's Holy Light is exactly The Holy Word of God, the Bible, not our Declaration of Independence or the United States Constitution, which arise from It. And this is what every liberal black, white, asiatic, or mixture of them wishes to equate with offal, and defecate it out of existence if possible (the process of which "kneeling" is for them the symbol).
At root, THAT is what is going on.
It is not freedom from Sin as a Master and chaos that they want--it is independence from The God of the Bible, His Son, and a disciplined life that he/they want.
Why does this not first occur to those deliberating on the issue?