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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Doctor Gollum on 04 July 2020, 20:46:54
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Happy Independence Day (http://O 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 rocket's 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?
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, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in 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.
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 washed out their foul footsteps' 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.
O thus be it ever, when freemen 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 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!)
History may well be in the past, but it should nevertheless be respected.
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A while back on radio(?) they shoved a mic under the nose of a young woman on telly and asked their thoughts on Independence Day. She replied ... "what has it to do with us?" ::) ;D ;D
they walk amongst us!
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Indeed they do :-X
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Not being American I don't do Independence Day,but fair play to them for doing so.Of course being English I can't do St Georges Day or fly a Union Flag as I'd be some kind of racist and/or offend someone.
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A while back on radio(?) they shoved a mic under the nose of a young woman on telly and asked their thoughts on Independence Day. She replied ... "what has it to do with us?" ::) ;D ;D
they walk amongst us!
after 240 years, it's not a stupid question, but one that warrants a properly thought through answer. The hard part of that would be doing so without the rose-tinted spectacles and kneejerk nostalgia that is so prevalent.
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Thought yesterday was "Indepubandance Day" for us
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Hell yeah! Happy Independence day (https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1279569539227963392) Y'all! ::)
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Hell yeah! Happy Independence day (https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1279569539227963392) Y'all! ::)
Don’t they still hang people for treasonous acts? :-X