[Occupymendocino] 3 rd verse of SSB

[Mark Safron]

So much for flag pin patriotism:

Check out lines 5 and 6

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 footsteps’ 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.

Francis Scott Key was a slave owner.

Any questions?
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