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'Star-Spangled Banner': Anthem was once a song of drinking and sex
LATimes ^ | 13 Sep 2014 | Michael Muskal

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nationalanthem; starspangledbanner
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To: shove_it

Note: The LAslimes will never talk about where Martin Luther King got the idea for his famous speech.


21 posted on 09/14/2014 5:40:28 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: shove_it
...words we use today...

See, there's your problem...try and re-read my post, slowly.

22 posted on 09/14/2014 5:41:39 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: bayliving

“I for one would like to see our National Anthem changed to “God Bless America””

Or “America The Beautiful”


23 posted on 09/14/2014 5:42:03 PM PDT by jimmyo57
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To: Jonty30; Publius

“... hitting those high notes...”

Yes, it takes a singer with a wide range to sing the anthem.

See #13


24 posted on 09/14/2014 5:42:10 PM PDT by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: shove_it

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.


25 posted on 09/14/2014 5:44:10 PM PDT by bobo1 (progressives=commies/fascists)
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To: bobo1

It’s true. Click the link on Post #13.


26 posted on 09/14/2014 5:46:53 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: DoughtyOne

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.


27 posted on 09/14/2014 5:50:28 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: shove_it
We had this same suggestion 45-50 years ago or so.
It looks like the US is reliving he 60’s again only st a lower intensity like a has been athlete trying to make a come back. Race riots, a never ending war, Russia invading it's neighbors, an egotistical President who thinks he is the second coming of FDR, and now changing the National Anthem.
28 posted on 09/14/2014 5:52:31 PM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: shove_it
No on "America the Beautiful. Just what the heck are alabaster cities?

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.

29 posted on 09/14/2014 5:54:45 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: shove_it

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.


30 posted on 09/14/2014 5:55:28 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo (Power always thinks.. that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. -John Adams)
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To: GeronL

Exactly. Well said.


31 posted on 09/14/2014 5:55:55 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: Fiji Hill

When we got to the “alabaster” line in the song, we would sing, “Thy ala-BASTARD cities gleam...” We drove the teachers nuts.


32 posted on 09/14/2014 5:57:10 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: shove_it

Another commie disguised as an American.


33 posted on 09/14/2014 5:57:31 PM PDT by McGruff (I'm thinkin.)
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To: jazusamo

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.


34 posted on 09/14/2014 5:57:31 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: shove_it
Memorable 'Star-Spangled Banner' moments 'Star-Spangled Banner': The good & the bad Sept. 14 is the 200th anniversary of the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key. To mark the occasion, we look at memorable moments involving the American national anthem.  photo sbb_zps2c877acd.jpg
35 posted on 09/14/2014 6:01:20 PM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: shove_it

Here’s the link:

http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/memorable-star-spangled-banner-moments#image=1


36 posted on 09/14/2014 6:01:49 PM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: bayliving

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!


37 posted on 09/14/2014 6:02:07 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: bayliving

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.


38 posted on 09/14/2014 6:02:46 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: Ronald_Magnus

INFAMOUS moments would be better.


39 posted on 09/14/2014 6:16:11 PM PDT by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: Jonty30

I will take the national anthem with music of strange beginnings over a President that doped his way through high school and college.


40 posted on 09/14/2014 6:17:45 PM PDT by taterjay
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