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shadawick
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USA
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 Posted - June 07 2010 : 12:40:34 PM
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Below is a YouTube link to a video of a former US Marine teaching Americans the second verse of the Star Spangled Banner. I am ashamed to admit that I am 56 years old and had never heard the additional verse. Please listen to the words and if you believe like I do, the second verse aught to be required to be sung with the first. We need to ask ourselves, how and when did the additional verse begin to be left off? Was this intentional or just as a convenience? The words should leave little doubt that we are by design and creation a nation of Christians and the founding fathers were led by Divine power. This is my take, what is yours?
Link to Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0fQd858cRc&feature=player_embedded
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susquesus
Mad Hermit of the North Woods
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Posted - June 07 2010 : 6:33:07 PM
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We actually only usually sing the first verse of 4- the full version is:
O! 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 through 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 in 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!
And during the Civil War there was even a 5th verse:
When our land is illumined with liberty's smile,
If a foe from within strikes a blow at her glory,
Down, down with the traitor that tries to defile
The flag of the stars, and the page of her story!
By the millions unchained,
Who their birthright have gained
We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained;
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave,
While the land of the free is the home of the brave.
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shadawick
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Posted - June 07 2010 : 10:39:50 PM
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| WOW! Thanks Susquesus, I continue to learn about this great National message. I seriously don't think that I can remember all the verses much less 5. In out ole Baptist church we used to sing either the 1st and 3rd or 1st and last verse of hymns. I think what struck me is the clear connection that it was in God that we trust. Guess that is where the phrase "In God We Trust." on our money comes from. |
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