Posted on 09/14/2014 5:18:53 PM PDT by shove_it
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Key was on a British ship, part of a U.S. delegation to negotiate a prisoner release. He was kept on board to prevent the American forces from being tipped off about the forthcoming bombing by the British.
He was allowed to return to Baltimore on Sept. 14 and was so inspired by the U.S. pluckiness that he wrote a poem, "Defence of Fort M'Henry," which he published on Sept. 20, 1814.
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Neither Key's early hymn nor the Barbary War is widely taught in American schools anymore (except for the reference in the Marines’ Hymn: “To the shores of Tripoli”).
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Note: The LAslimes will never talk about where Martin Luther King got the idea for his famous speech.
See, there's your problem...try and re-read my post, slowly.
“I for one would like to see our National Anthem changed to “God Bless America””
Or “America The Beautiful”
“... hitting those high notes...”
Yes, it takes a singer with a wide range to sing the anthem.
See #13
It must be true cuz a progressive is writing it.
Amazing Grace was written to the tune of an old drinking song
The Islamic State is not Islamic
The National Socialist Party was not socialist.
It’s true. Click the link on Post #13.
Well said!
The Star Spangled Banner is about the sacrifices made by many to remain a free country.
Military action made it possible for us to break away from England and through the years to defend our freedoms.
Our National Anthem should always be The Star Spangled Banner.
I like "God Bless America", but I've never heard anyone sing it as well as Katherine Smith.
I say, keep "The Star-Spangled Banner," but let's sing all four verses.
This was one of my favorite subjects to study in music class. My grandpa even gave me a book on the origins of the “Star-Spangled Banner”. Francis Scott Key was being held captive on a boat. He was watching the Brits bombard Ft. McHenry. There was no way that he was thinking such thoughts while watching these events. People are total idiots.
Exactly. Well said.
When we got to the “alabaster” line in the song, we would sing, “Thy ala-BASTARD cities gleam...” We drove the teachers nuts.
Another commie disguised as an American.
Thanks. That’s sure the way I see it. I fear it will be changed as your younger generations fail to be taught about our nation’s founding and importance to the world at large.
I think we should use as our National Anthem, a wonderful poem called:
The Defense of Fort McHenry
Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, 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 through 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 in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh 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 washed 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!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved 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!
Read the words to our National Anthem & you’ll understand why it is & should always remain our national anthem. The reason is it is the only national anthem in the world which begins & ends with a question - which is are we still worthy of the God given freedoms that have been bequeathed to us by our forebearers. Simply put, there is no more fitting tribute to the greatness of our nation than the question which the National Anthem asks not once, but twice. Every time I hear it forces me to ask myself am I worthy of what has uniquely been given to me as an Ameican citizen.
INFAMOUS moments would be better.
I will take the national anthem with music of strange beginnings over a President that doped his way through high school and college.
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