THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM!

Those of you reading this probably studied in school how our National Anthem came to be; and you may have forgotten.
Francis Scott Key wrote this poem in 1814 while watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry from the deck of a British prison ship.  It goes like this:
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, 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.
Oh say, does that star spangled banner yet wave
 O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
There is where we normally stop singing and sit down, but there are three more verses;

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 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 in the stream;
'Tis the star-spangled banner--O long may it wave
O'er the home of the free and the land of the brave!

And where is that band, who so flauntingly 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 footstep's pollution;
No refuge could save the hireling or slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star spangled banner in triumph dougth wave 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O, thus may it ever when free men shall stand
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation
Then conquer we must, when our cause it 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. 

When set to music by John Stafford, this poem was recognized as our nation's national anthem on March 3, 1931,  Most Americans today are proud to stand up and properly salute our flag when the occasion occurs.  Those who chose to show their disrespect should look for a home they CAN respect!..Medicineman!