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Comment by Central Scrutinizer on June 19, 2012 at 8:28am

Land of The Sheep. Home of the Naive is more fitting today ;)

Comment by Cryptocurrency on June 19, 2012 at 12:32am

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry",^[1] a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. "The Anacreontic Song" (or "To Anacreon in Heaven"), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States. Set to Key's poem and renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner", it would soon become a well-known American patriotic song. With a range of one and a half octaves, it is known for being difficult to sing. Although the poem has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today.

Comment by suzie on June 19, 2012 at 12:03am

Does anyone know what that song is about?   We sing it without knowledge of what it really means ..  it was beautiful to me but i know what it means ..

Comment by Cryptocurrency on June 18, 2012 at 11:36pm

:) and that's what it's all about right there. Hi-fives and hugs. We are America, like no one else. Liberty lives through us...