" Oh say can you see by the danwns early light..." so begins our illustrious National Anthem. However, what is it about? It's abouyt realisign that after then end of a war, our flag is still there. Is this the portrayl we want for our country? A song that when everyone listens to they see only the violence and the fact that we are "king of the hill"?
Even the way it was written is ridiculous. Francis Scott Key was drinking at a pub and decided to start beign beligerent to the officers, who were preparing for a large battle during the war of 1812. Francis Scott Key was put into a holding hull of a ship with a prt hole in it to sleep off his drunkeness. Thsi ship was just outside of the harbor where the main battles of the War of 1812 was being fought. Francis Scott Key was awoken from his inhebriated state to cannon fire, and saw through his port hole smoke and fire blazing on shore. As the sun rose, and the smoke cleared oyur flag was still standing.
Francis Scott Key took out a pen and wrote a song to the tune of the last tune he could remember - an English drinking song. So our National Anthem was written by a drunk to the tune of a drinking song in the middle of a battle that effectively did nothing for the country.
This is our national song - when a perfectly good song was sitting there the whole time, and was often sung in celebration of our country: America The Beautiful. A song that describes the great things about our country, and the people who inhabit it.
Instead we decided to honor war, battles, drinking, drunkenness.
What do you think? Which should be our true Anthem?
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