The Star Spangled Banner

Post by **jones jones** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:58 pm

to all my american friends on fg ... have an awesome weekend!

Jj :-4

The Star Spangled Banner

By Francis Scott Key

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!

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:01 pm

Thank you Jj! :yh_hugs :-4 :yh_flag

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:06 am

Thank you, JJ.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:54 am

Thank you JJ, from Baltimore where the words were written in inspiration for the assault on Fort McHenry and the flag still flying the next day. An awesome place to visit, to remember history and recall why we celebrate our freedom on days like this.

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:04 am

Thank you jj, thank all you morale citizens of America and thank you to all the countries and it's volunteers as follows...

France

Spain

Dutch Republic

Polish volunteers

Quebec's(Quebecois) volunteers

Prussian volunteers

Oneida

Tuscarora

American Revolution

Post by **jones jones** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:48 am

hope ... terri ... chonsigirl & k.snyder ... your very welcome guys ...

i know its not a fashionable thing to say nowadays but ...

i love america! :-4

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:16 am

jones jones;906928 wrote: hope ... terri ... chonsigirl & k.snyder ... your very welcome guys ...

i know its not a fashionable thing to say nowadays but ...

i love america! :-4

:-6:-6:-6

Dang. I really appreciate that JJ! That means a lot.

Post by **jones jones** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:20 am

your welcome Red!

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:39 am

jones jones;906928 wrote: hope ... terri ... chonsigirl & k.snyder ... your very welcome guys ...

i know its not a fashionable thing to say nowadays but ...

i love america! :-4

Thank you Jj, you are very cool!

:-4

Post by **jones jones** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:13 am

Hope6;906970 wrote: Thank you Jj, you are very cool!

:-4

mwaaaaaaaaaaah! :-4