I went walking with my friend Sarah this morning, and discovered that a friend of hers was in one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center. It's amazing how eight years later, it still hits so close to home.
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
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Thanks for posting this! I loved it.
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