Buckeye Valley News And Buckeye Review

How well do you know "The Star Spangled Banner," America's national anthem? Here before you is your opportunity to memorize the thrilling words, to sing the inspiring song, and to play its music. What day more fit than on Independence day to get better acquainted with the deep, inspiring Americanism Francis Scott Key put into his masterpiece as "O'er the ramparts" he watched and saw the flag still proudly waving.

Today, as from the very foundation of our nation, Liberty is the American ideal, come down to us these many years purified by the blood of martyrs. It is this great doctrine of Liberty which distinguishes Americans from any who have not had our long tradition of political and human freedom. And were it preached by tongue most eloquent, the philosophy of repression and oppression, of class against class, of creed against creed, and of human thralldom to a dictatorship, shall ever remain under the Stars and Stripes.

Never shall Americans exchange Liberty and Democracy for the slavery of authoritarian ideology.

"O'er the ramparts we watch," wrote Francis Scott Key. "O'er the ramparts we watch" today, too. And as long as we hold to the American ideals of freedom, we shall continue to see our flag "so gallantly streaming."

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