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Originally Posted by ColdNoMore
While I have always stood for our national anthem, something I wasn't aware of prior to this controversy is the wording of the third (I think it's the third) verse.
Since I'm on my phone, trying to find it and pasting is a pain...so maybe someone could do it?
If what I've read is correct, it states killing runaway slaves is not only fine...but encouraged.
Are there really folks who DON'T find this reprehensible? 
And unlike some, I couldn't be more proud of our President for acknowledging that we ALL have the SAME rights...not just the rights/people we like.  |
Looking for reason to disrespect our National Anthem is your right. Words were written by Francis Scott Key and here they are;
America's National Anthem (All 4 Verses)
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!