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Star Spangled Banner!
200th Anniversary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvaroeQMCRUThis September 14th weekend, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of our National Anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” As we honor America’s determination over the British during the battle at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, we can also peel aside the layers of the past to understand how this incredibly special song came to be and the passion behind it.
Author and presidential historian Jane Hampton Cook explains Francis Scott Key learned a close friend, a physician, had been captured by British forces as the War of 1812 lingered on. Key approached President Madison to ask permission to locate Dr. William Beans and the British vessel where he was being held prisoner. In quite a feat of detective work, Key located Beans and negotiated with the British Navy. Cook takes it from here, “They agreed to release him, but they told Key and Dr. Beans they had to stay with the British ship until after the British attacked Baltimore.” So Key was trapped on the enemy ship, “watching the rockets and the bombs as they hit Ft. McHenry.” The military assault was incredible, so Key was very relieved when he saw the American flag still waving atop the fort the next morning. That inspired Key to compose the lines, “And the rocket’s 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?”
The last stanza of the Star-Spangled Banner gives a direct credit to God, “O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand, Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace may the heav’n rescued land, Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d 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 braveOh say, can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight's last gleamingWhose broad stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight
Over the ramparts we watched
Were so gallantly streamingAnd the rockets' red glare
The bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still thereOh say, does that
Star spangled banner yet wave
Of the land and of the free
And the home of the brave.Songwriters
Francis Scott Key
Ice Cream at the beach with my Baby
I will rub it all over him and lick it of him .. RockyRoad
winter or summer
Dreaming of my King
thats my spous
Foxy Feeling fresh & energized after that shower
and pampered by Lover heheheNext one might be maybe martin have not seen him in a long time
he must be busy kissing all them girls lolI like both hehehe
But its more energizing after a good nights sleep so morning :
You giving or getting a massage
Bond James Bond
yes I am and I read a very inspirational story how a 5 year old saved the life of
her great great grandmother life when she was drowning in the pool m they said
she was thought to swim when she was 3 years old ,I love story's like this makes my
day much nicernext one can you please make me some lemon grass tea organic and fresh :
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I am here .
I was dreaming of my baby that I wake up all wet :
baby you always get me this way :-*Next one is lover maybe we can jump in the shower and hmmmm :-*