"Oh, say, can you see?"

  In recent days, there seems to be some confusion about our National Anthem. Certain groups seek to change it, “improve” it, and even change the lyrics that we all learned as schoolchildren. You may
remember those days, when each school day began with a prayer, and the Pledge of Allegiance.

  Of course, that was before prayer was banned from the schools, and the Pledge of Allegiance was
deemed to be inappropriate. Now the attack has turned to our precious National Anthem. Francis Scott Key did not speak Spanish, nor did any of the founding fathers. He would be appalled to see his legacy trammeled by a coalition of illegal trespassers, as are we.

 
  Since the time-honored methods of raising our children have been replaced by deviance disguised as political correctness, we feel it necessary to publish the anthem in it’s original form. It has sustained us through wars, depressions, civil turmoil, and a myriad of troubles that would have broken a lesser nation. It is the glue that holds us together - African, British, Italian, German, Irish, French, Cuban, Vietnamese, Danish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Russian, Chinese, Columbian, Danish, Polish, Scottish, Cambodian, etc, and the different faiths- Christian, Jew, Shinto, Muslim, Buddhist, etc. - all of our ancestors who managed to make this hodgepodge of nationalities and religions gel into exactly what we are – Americans.

  Our political leadership has turned into a gaggle of pandering fools, including the President, the
Senate and the House of Representatives. They have betrayed us, and our grandchildren, and robbed
us of our birthright as Americans. The “media” have managed to manipulate the terminology, so
that “illegal alien” has been replaced by “undocumented immigrant”. Changing the terminology does
not change the reality of the situation. As a wise old farmer once remarked; “If it walks like a duck,
and talks like a duck, it’s probably a duck”.

  I, for one, have had enough of “multiculturalism”, “political correctness”, and the onslaught of
socialist thought that has permeated our national dialog for thirty years. On May 1st, (“May Day” -
the traditional day of communist solidarity worldwide), these “undocumented immigrants” are
threatening to ‘shut down the country’ if their ‘demands’ are not met.
As our British friends would say – “what cheek!”

  Suffice it to say that we have arrived at a point at which we must stand up and be counted, and
reaffirm the beliefs that have sustained us through 230 years of independence. We must reject the
socialist agenda. We must reject the perversion of our culture, our common language, and our belief in the God who made our republic possible. Most of all, we must combat the evil that seeks to defile our children, and rob them of their birthright through relativism and the denial of the glorious history that we were all taught in the “Old America”.

  Call me a ‘fascist’. Call me a ‘hater’. Call me whatever the socialist catch-phrase of the day may be.
I don’t care. I am tired of watching everything I hold dear dragged through the mud by a bunch of
pseudo-educated elite socialist Fifth-Columnists, whose only contribution has been to replace strength, confidence, and righteousness with flaccid acquiescence to their failed hypothesis.

  But I digress…..
  Here is the United States National Anthem, as written, in English. It needs no translation.




  The Star Spangled Banner 

by Frances Scott Key

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' 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 thro' 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:
'T is 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 wash'd 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 lov'd 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 preserv'd us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause 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!