Before today, I didn't know when WWI ended. Now that I do, I'd like to tribute the soldiers who gave their lives for not just America, but the world.
(If you can I'd love to see a video singing this.)
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 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 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
It's full glory reflected now shines in 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 washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terrors 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.
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand,
Between their homes, and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry 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!
(I wrote this with a DUALSHOCK PS4 controller. No lie.)