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national anthem
spasmcreek
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Did anyone just hear Franklin's rendition of our National Anthem?? [:(!]
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crims40
Oh, 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 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 as 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!
This is from the Texas Tech-vs-University of Texas basketball game. (The group is called the "Cactus Cuties")
This is the way the national anthem should be sung!
Anytime I hear the National Anthem live I tend to choke up a little. I always look at the crowd, and 99.999% of the crowd is respectful & quiet. I aoways think to myself that across this great nation, everyday, hundreds of thousands of Americans listen to this tribute.
No way any foreign nation or "force" is EVER going to land on these shores and push us around. NO WAY.
I am proud to be an American. I am not always proud of what we do, or how we act, but I am always proud to live under this flag.
Not much in the way of "lookit me!" but it jams to the bone, nevertheless.
And my Blue Angels did the flyover! GO NAVY!!! [:D]
Planning of the Event includes a Pre-Flight Brief that focuses on "Time Over Target".
- and that would be: "National Anthem", if you were referring to Ours!
(Sorry to be a Grammar Prig! De Debbil Made Me Do It!)
EDITED for Grammar, LOL!
This is my country and I am proud of it and I will honor the Flag and the Anthem as long as I draw breath.