A Tribute to the Star Spangled Banner (July 4)

Message to the immigrants who refuse to learn English: Get out!! If you refuse to learn the language of the country (which just happens to also be the worldwide language of commerce), you don't deserve to be here!! Keep messing around with my national anthem, and there will be hell to pay!!

Liberals hate history - that's why they are constantly revising it. Here is the truth about the writing of the words that would later become our national anthem: On September 3, 1814, two men named Francis Scott Key and John Skinner were on a mission direct from President James Madison. This was during the War of 1812. The objective was to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes, a friend of Key who had been captured by the British and accused of aiding the enemy (namely the Americans).

Key and Skinner succeeded in gaining the prisoner's release, but because they'd overheard the plans for the attack on Fort McHenry and Fort Covington (the last lines of defense in Baltimore Harbor), they were detained overnight. Key witnessed the bombardment from the upper deck of the British ship the HMS Minden. He observed that the fort's smaller "storm flag" continued to fly. After a while, the smoke and darkness obscured his view of the flag - and he would not know how the battle ended until dawn. In the early morning hours, he noticed that the small flag had been lowered ... and in its place a much larger flag had been raised - an American flag.

Key was inspired by the American victory and the sight of the large American flag. The next day he wrote the words that we now sing as our national anthem. This is my country - born out of adversity and rooted in faith. The Liberal wackos would have us forget the fourth verse of Key's immortal words, my Conservative friend - but you and I will refuse to forget. We've allowed them to take prayer out of our public skrewls, and they attempt to revise our history. As we celebrate Independence Day today, let us not forget these words:

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 in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!