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… became the official national anthem of the United States on this date in 1931.
You know what that means? For 155 years is was not the official national anthem. For just 76 years it has been. We could change it. It isn’t etched in granite. |
The first (of four) verses:
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 rockets’ 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?
“America the Beautiful” would be a better choice. Let’s stop glorifying violence and militarism.