Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution. That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusionĪ home and a Country should leave us no more? ‘Tis the star-spangled banner – O long may it wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!Īnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore, 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, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bomb bursting in air, O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, This slavery had nothing to do with race. The American navy was proudly comprised of volunteers while the British had to pay or enslave their sailors.
The line refers to the men impressed into service on British ships. The lines the Left has problems with reads, “ 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.” The third stanza the Left is trying to say is racist had nothing to do with American slaves. In 1956, Congress embraced the fourth verse of Key’s poem and adopted “In God We Trust” as our national motto. In 1930, the Veterans of Foreign Wars started a petition to recognize it as our national anthem. It was played at Independence Day celebrations and in 1916, Woodrow Wilson ordered it played by the military. Key was moved to put his poem to paper, which he first named “Defence of Fort M’Henry.” It was later called “The Star-Spangled Banner” and was immensely popular in the new republic. Old Glory flew with its fifteen stars and fifteen stripes.
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