by Sherry Bentley-Short

Created on: February 24, 2007   Last Updated: April 19, 2007

How touchy are we gonna get I ask you? The mention of GOD in the national anthem was one persons view of America becoming free and the blood shed to make them free. This is our national anthem and isn't anything sacred from over touchy politically correct individuals, that have nothing better to do with their time than to try to change the way the world looks.

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!- Frances Scott Key

This beautiful song that was written by a poet was written for us Americans and now we are the ones that want to change it to suit the feelings of a few. This is our song. We should leave it alone. Just so it is said here first, next we will be petitioning France to have them put pants on the Statue of Liberty since most women don't wear dresses anymore.

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