1. Oh say can you see by the dawns 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 ram parts  we watch’d 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?

2. On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in the dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er 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, oh, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

3. 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 wash’d 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.

4. Oh, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d 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.

Patriotic songs
 
 
 

The American Flag's Story

 

    The flag is flown at half mass, or in the middle of the flagpole, on Memorial Day. People do that to honor those Americans who died fighting for their country. It is also flown at half mass when a president or other government official dies.
 

    The American flag stands for the people, freedom, and liberty of the United States. It should always be treated with  much respect.

    When the flag passes, for example in a parade, or when an American recites the pledge of Allegiance, one should face the flag and place one’s right hand over one’s heart. Also, many rules have been made about flying the flag at half-mass halfway up the flagpole.

    Betsy Ross changed the flag. She switched the points on the stars from six to five.  The red, white and blue on the flag are symbols.  Red stands for courage, white stands for purity or good, and blue stands for justice.

    Americans honor their flag.  One special day to do this is on Flag day June 14th. That day is very Patriotic. The word Patriotic comes from what the American Soldiers called themselves, during the colonial days.
 
 

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