Star-Spangled Banner—‘In God is our trust.’
I was sent an e-mail yesterday (Wednesday) which included a link to a new Joe Miller campaign advertisement. After watching the ad, I clicked onto another video which had been watched over 2.5 million times. It was a Tea Party rally where a man sang the fourth verse of the Star-Spangled Banner. I don’t recall every hearing the fourth verse before or every reading it. To watch the video copy and paste the link below:
From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9_bP219ehQ&feature=related
To watch the marine who sang the song being interviewed on Fox News copy and paste the link below. Did you see either an interview with this man or the video on any other news outlet?
From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WO40DMZWHQ&NR=1 (Fox News)
From http://www.usa-flag-site.org/song-lyrics/star-spangled-banner.shtml
“The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics
By Francis Scott Key 1814 (written September 14, 1814 and made the national anthem of the United State of America by an act of Congress on March 3, 1931—my addition)
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
Be tween 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!”
Notice that according to the song, America is rescued by Heaven, made by the Power, preserved as a nation by the Power, and has a motto of ‘In God is our Trust!’ This is our national anthem. Do we still believe it!
I was sent an e-mail yesterday (Wednesday) which included a link to a new Joe Miller campaign advertisement. After watching the ad, I clicked onto another video which had been watched over 2.5 million times. It was a Tea Party rally where a man sang the fourth verse of the Star-Spangled Banner. I don’t recall every hearing the fourth verse before or every reading it. To watch the video copy and paste the link below:
From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9_bP219ehQ&feature=related
To watch the marine who sang the song being interviewed on Fox News copy and paste the link below. Did you see either an interview with this man or the video on any other news outlet?
From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WO40DMZWHQ&NR=1 (Fox News)
From http://www.usa-flag-site.org/song-lyrics/star-spangled-banner.shtml
“The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics
By Francis Scott Key 1814 (written September 14, 1814 and made the national anthem of the United State of America by an act of Congress on March 3, 1931—my addition)
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
Be tween 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!”
Notice that according to the song, America is rescued by Heaven, made by the Power, preserved as a nation by the Power, and has a motto of ‘In God is our Trust!’ This is our national anthem. Do we still believe it!
posted by Christian Gunslinger at 5:06 PM
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