Monday, July 4, 2011

In God is our trust

                                                        

  The Star-Spangled Banner
1. 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, thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thru 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!
4. Oh' thus be it ever  when free men shall stand between their loved homes and the war's desolation; blest with victory and peace, may the Heavens-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!
by Francis Scott Key (1814)
~In memory of all that have given their life for the pursuit of freedom and happiness for the United States of America~