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Pintrepid:
It's interesting to note that the song, starting as a poem, was written after Francis Scott Key,the author, witnessed the Battle Of Fort McHenry in 1812. It's also interesting to note that the poem was set to the same tune as "To Anacreon In Heaven", a popular British drinking song back in that day. How typical for early Americans to take the Brits at their own pompous asininity and turn it into an American patriotic song in defiance to the domineering British of the day.

It was a completely different world back then.

I'm frequently moved by the movie, "The Patriot", with Mel Gibson. Towns were very much smaller back then. And if someone came into your church and said, "The local militia is being called up. I'm here to enlist every man willing." ... what would we do?

Nowadays, I think most people have forgotten where the US came from, and have the "It's all about ME!" mentality. Certainly the younger crowd has no idea what it means to believe in anything or what a gruesome business it is to fight for a good cause. Those who've gone to Iraq must have had a very rude awakening. But among their peers they totally don't have a clue ...

faralos:
odd all these years and I never knew it contained four verses!
I am a 'Yankee doodle dandy' guy being born on the fourth
but in school even we were just taught the first verse
we were never even told that it had three more!
 gotta' love our schools!
the film The Patriot also stars the late great Heath Ledger as Mels son
Heath to me is or was one of the great younger actors to come along in a while
 he played the patriotic son part with perfection
going back to the kids of today the things they believe in are much different
 than what we believe in,  they are all for FB (facebook) and crap like that
anything that brings them together VIRTUALLY is okay with them
 but god forbid they ever have to venture outside  their protective little cocoons
 to actually meet face to face!
and they poo poo the wars we were involved in not knowing that we fought
 for their freedom maybe not on an actual battlefield but in other ways as well
 even though at times especially on vpf I say I hate our country
what that means is I really hate our government but will fight to the death
for my homeland if or when that time comes
I hate our government and what it stands for today but I do love this country of ours
 and what it represents!
 So God Bless America and all those who fought and gave their lives to bring us that freedom

Rukia:
 :awaken:
 
That is all.
 

Rukia:
Is it just me, or are the holidays coming up faster and faster.  And I'm not just talking about Halloween, Thanksgiving, & Christmas (although, they all seem to be running together this year), but I mean even the "Hallmark" holidays too.  I suppose what I'm saying in a nutshell is that the years are flying by, and I'm just marking by how quickly the holidays come and go.

I know when that earthquake in Japan happened, it tilted the Earth's axis and time had sped up just a bit, but still...  I'm getting old and I don't like it.  The only comfort I can take is that Itchy was BORN OLD (and I don't mean an old soul)! LOL!!
 
There doesn't seem to be enough time in the year to get everything done! LOL!
Oh well!
 
Rukia

Itchigo:
It was that "doo_msday device (©™) I was working on, my bad.

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