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Posted on 09/12/2004 10:48:23 PM PDT by JustAmy
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I have one!
FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH SPENDS HIS 89TH BIRTHDAY IN AN UNDESCLOSED LOCATION AND IS SADDENED BY THE DEATH OF THE LAST OPENLY CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN IN AMERICA
Time to pick Marissa up at pre-school, then ...... to the beauty shop to repair a home-made haircut. :(
Be back soon.
Have a great Tuesday everyone.
c ya later, Amy!
Never attempt at home what can be done in a salon. (I'm not allowed to handle scissors anywhere near my hair.)
Thank you for the poem, "Warrior Poet". It is very nice.
Bye. You've got mail.
Really, Amy. You indulge that child too much.
Letting her cut your hair was not the most clever thing to do, but I'm sure she enjoyed herself.
O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
On Sept. 13, 1814, Francis Scott Key visited the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes, who had been captured after the burning of Washington, DC. The release was secured, but Key was detained on ship overnight during the shelling of Fort McHenry, one of the forts defending Baltimore. In the morning, he was so delighted to see the American flag still flying over the fort that he began a poem to commemorate the occasion. First published under the title “Defense of Fort M'Henry,” the poem soon attained wide popularity as sung to the tune “To Anacreon in Heaven.” The origin of this tune is obscure, but it may have been written by John Stafford Smith, a British composer born in 1750. “The Star-Spangled Banner” was officially made the national anthem by Congress in 1931, although it already had been adopted as such by the army and the navy.
The version on # 114 was written by Miguel Pancho Smith, in 1998.
Chocolate is my favorite. Do you have a favorite?
Regarding poem on #114, as Lily Tomlin's little girl character would say, "and that's the truth, bbpplllttt * rasberry *"...
(Sorry, haven't gotten that far in the thread yet.)
Edith Ann
Never knew there was 'more to it' until seeing the rest of it in teh Freeper Foxhole.
In WWII, German soldiers were caught trying to infiltrate Allied lines in this way: They were asked what the second stanza to the Star Spangled Banner was.
If they knew it, they were Germans.
Yeth, that's her naymb.
I guess I would have been safe with that question, but they would have shot me if they had asked, say, Who won the World Series in 1931? Dunno? Dah-dah-dah-dah-dat....
I know, and that was pretty awful.
Especially to watch.
I'd have been grabbed and interrogated probably.
Hmmmmm, yes it would, wouldn't it? I don't ever seem to have time to draw anymore - or maybe the truth is that I don't ever seem to TAKE the time to draw anymore, huh?
Thanks for the nice words - know that CG likes to do patriotic poems and Amy asked if I would do another one, too. It's in her hands. :)
Amy and Lori, I read the Fresno picnic thread - loved seeing all the pictures and so glad the weekend was another huge success!
Did you see it too?
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