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O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave...

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Last year I posted on the f.f. some of the amazing facts surrounding the birth of the United States as Heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus Christ watched over unfolding events. Hope you enjoy some other great things I came across this week. May God help us and keep us.
Star Spangled Banner As You've Never Heard It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaxGNQE5ZLA
Ragged Old Flag by Johnny Cashhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6vwXbQZvJo
Red Skelton's Pledge of Allegiance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HGHdFmu5GU
What are the “Soldiers in the Sky” mentioned the night the plates were delivered?https://askgramps.org/soldiers-sky-ment ... delivered/

The Star-Spangled Banner
Lyrics

1. 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 thru the night that our flag was still there.
Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
2. On the shore, dimly seen thru 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 on the stream;
’Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
3. Oh, thus be it ever, when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Pow’r 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!
Text: Francis Scott Key, 1779–1843
Music: John Stafford Smith, 1750–1836

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