How many of us can say the Pledge of Allegiance.? And sing the Star Spangle Banner? How many can say and tell me how many stars and stripes are on the flag? It's sad but true, after reading an article yesterday so many of us don't even know the words to our National song. Then the song that Frances Scott Key did that early morning hours when America was attacked with rockets flying over bombing the fort and killing everything.As the sun rose Francis wrote" Oh say can you see by the dawns early light,what so proudly we stand".Remember that word proudly we stand.without we would not have freedom. After going to my nephews high school graduation this last weekend, it was sad. people talking and carrying on like nothing was hap pening.I have not had the right to say that I served in the armed service, but I have had friends that did and I have played taps
with the National Guard also. But when I have played taps for the fallen one it does bring tears in your eyes and that song is a moving one also. If it doesn't make you cry then there has to be something wrong with you.
Bryan Harper
2 comments:
Good Story. And Good points.
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?
Post a Comment