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To: Diogenesis
And the anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all.

Not to mention puting your life between your "lov'd homes and the war's desolation". Then there is that part about "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:"

I know he didn't say it, but he could have. The not often sung 3rd and 4th stanzas are very un PC these days.

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 freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes 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 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!

18 posted on 12/01/2008 2:00:46 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

“And the anthem itself conveys a war-like message.”

Has this brilliant, sophisticated, cultured Haahvaahd gentleman ever read the text of the FRENCH national anthem?;)


20 posted on 12/01/2008 2:08:54 PM PST by Frank_2001
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