Seth Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 This one caught me completely off guard. I had no idea.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JFlowers Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Thank You Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gohuskers Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I learn something everyday. Thanks for posting this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 that was great. thanks for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
target1911 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 WOW. THAT GAVE ME CHILLS IT WAS AWESOME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfinney Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Outstanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny7 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Outstanding. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ima45dv8 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 That was beautiful! (but he left off the last verse -- "Gentlemen! Start your engines!") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 That was beautiful! (but he left off the last verse -- "Gentlemen! Start your engines!") Ya made me spit on the screen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoShooter Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 (edited) The history of Francis Scott Key is very interesting , I did a short speech last year at one of our club events about ("Why" Francis Scott Key was a prisoner on a British ship.) The Poem was written when the outcome of the Revolutionary war was far from certain. He was on the ship to negotiate a friends release as a prisoner of war exchange. He had gone to great length to put himself in position of save his friend. He was successfully in getting his friend and others freed but was kept on the ship while the British crushed Resistance in the Fort. the British though they would crush the American and secure total victory. It stayed a Poem for years until it was put to song much latter 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! Research Links Edited January 28, 2011 by AlamoShooter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 It would be great if he went on American Idol and sang that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMV Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matzka Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Amen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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