Turn your speakers on and enjoy. This rendition of it is quite moving to me. Worth a look, folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0fQd...m8&feature=sub
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Turn your speakers on and enjoy. This rendition of it is quite moving to me. Worth a look, folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0fQd...m8&feature=sub
Hoohrah!!!!!!!
Thanks olfrat.
It ripped my tears out.
God Bless America
Thumbs up for me.
thanks, loved it, very moving
That occurred at a Tea Party event in Douglas County, GA, western suburb of Atlanta. Herman Cain was the featured speaker, Herman has a good website if you are politically inclined.
Whooooo hah.....now that is PATRIOTISM........................................ .
Love it
Bernie
I'm confused. You mean that the younger generation doesn't know that there are 4 verses to the National Anthem? SO....what are they teaching them in school these days? I would think the National Anthem would be pretty basic Civics, and Social Studies. When I was in school, we sang all 4 verses every day, right after the prayer, and the Pledge of Allegeance.
I guess what is bugging me is that everyone is acting stupified that there is another verse (actually, there are 3 'other' verses), and that someone (one of my fellow Marines, no less...Ouugh Rah!) would sing it out loud, in public. If I had known that's all it takes to make the news, I would've been famous a long time ago..... It disturbs me greatly that my fellow Americans do not know all the words to our beloved National Anthem. That is where the motto "In God We Trust, " on our currency, came from. They didn't just pull it out of thin air.
I think that's a big 'Danger' signal, when people don't know their National Anthem, what the country stands for, and what it means to be an American. This should be a major wake-up call.
Semper Fi!
Very very nice, that guy has a really good voice and did a great job.
It's sad isn't it. I have a 16yr old Nephew & 12 yr old niece and hear all the time about school from them and you wouldn't believe how much it has changed over the past couple decades. Back when I was in school we learned about things that MATTERED, did the Pledge of Allegiance every morning (INCLUDING "Under God") and were taught things about our country and about history that were important. Now a days what kids learn in school is so chopped up as to not be "offensive" to anyone it's almost a joke. Just crazy how generations change so much.Quote:
I'm confused. You mean that the younger generation doesn't know that there are 4 verses to the National Anthem? SO....what are they teaching them in school these days? I would think the National Anthem would be pretty basic Civics, and Social Studies. When I was in school, we sang all 4 verses every day, right after the prayer, and the Pledge of Allegeance.
Anyway back to the video...thanks that was very moving.
Steve
"Defence of Fort McHenry"
Poem by Francis Scott Key (1814)
Music "To Anacreon in Heaven"
HISTORY:
September 13, 1814, Fort McHenry came under continues fire by the British Fleet, for the next 25 hours. Fort McHenry was last line of defense for protecting the Baltimore Harbor. Between the chains stretched across the harbor opening, sunken vessels and the cannons of Fort McHenry the British were replused from capturing Balitmore.
During the Battle of Fort McHenry, there were two flags, the storm flag and the garrison flag. During the Battle, all through the night of the battle, the smaller storm flag flew over Fort McHenry. As the sun rose the next morning on September 14th, the storm flag was lowered and replaced with the Garrison Flag, that is now on permanent display in Washington DC in its new permanent home at the Smithsonian.
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 rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through 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 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 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 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.
O, 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!
Platoon Sergeant Steven H. McGarthwaite
U.S. Army Retired, 1968-1995, 3rd Infantry Regiment (Old Guard)
If you have ever served Our Nations in the U.S. Military, you are authorized by the Department of Defense to salute the Flag of the United States, whenever and were ever it is displayed... you also have the right because of your service to our nation, to salute (in civilan clothes) others that have served.... You were, You are, You always will be a soldier!