{"id":1212,"date":"2012-07-04T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T12:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2012-07-04T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T12:05:16","slug":"happy-birthday-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2012\/07\/04\/happy-birthday-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy birthday, United States of America.<\/p>\n

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The Star Spangled Banner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Francis Scott Key<\/strong><\/p>\n

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O say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
\nWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
\nWhose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
\nO’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
\nAnd the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
\nGave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
\nO say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<\/p>\n

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
\nWhere the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
\nWhat is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
\nAs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
\nNow it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
\nIn full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
\n‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/p>\n

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
\nThat the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
\nA home and a country, should leave us no more?
\nTheir blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
\nNo refuge could save the hireling and slave
\nFrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
\nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/p>\n

O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
\nBetween their loved home and the war’s desolation.
\nBlest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
\nPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
\nThen conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
\nAnd this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
\nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<\/p>\n

(Source of lyrics:\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Star-Spangled_Banner)<\/p>\n

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Despite those poltroons in Washington who are intent of vilifying, destroying, or giving away everything that made this country great and everything I stand for, I thought it might be nice to list\u00a0all four verses<\/strong>\u00a0of our National Anthem before the ACLU, some atheist group, or someone else decides it is offensive and tries to have it banned.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy birthday, United States of America.   The Star Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key   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 … Continue reading Happy Birthday, USA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}