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To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (77198)9/23/2001 1:15:23 PM
From: The Barracuda™  Respond to of 116752
 
"The Star-Spangled Banner."
The first stanza
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, 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?

second stanza

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, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

third stanza: Key did not worry about collateral damage or "innocents" here.

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 wiped out their foul footstep's 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.


fourth stanza:

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-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 forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!



To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (77198)9/23/2001 2:57:44 PM
From: c.hinton  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116752
 
" Worrying about "innocents" is stupid to the point of being treason."
Ben Laden would agree wholeheartedly with you on that point.



To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (77198)9/23/2001 10:42:04 PM
From: Enigma  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116752
 
<<Onkar Ghate, Ph.D. in philosophy, is a resident fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute in Marina del Rey, Calif. The Institute promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Send Feedback>>

Explains why it is so inane?