UP Ibalon Bicol: July 4, 2009: Let Freedom Ring to the Home of the Brave!

July 4, 2009: Let Freedom Ring to the Home of the Brave!

7/04/2009 | Posted by mesiamd | Edit Post

Earning liberty from Great Britain in July 1776, the United States of America was formed to become a diverse nation of people that pursue the American dream.

Today we celebrate America’s birthday with gladness and gratitude. We pray that God will continue to guide and shower its freedom-loving citizens with love and care as the country advances into the uncertainties of the 21st century. We call on all brothers and sisters of all nations to share with us the wonder and sweetness of this great land. (Photo Credit: photobunny) =0=

The Defense of Fort McHenry
by Francis Scott Key
20 September 1814

The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, 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?

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, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on 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 wiped out their foul footstep's 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.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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