Happy Independence Day to our American members!
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newnameman
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although I really enjoy this holiday, this week and weekend was the worse commuting experience i've ever experienced in San Diego. ugth...and yesterday was even worse lol. It took me 2 hours to drive 15 miles to work (I work right smack at the beach area...). I had no parking space too. It wasn't this bad last year, nor the year prior. wtf happened to SD?
SD is supposedly a "tourist spot," yet the road infrastructure can't even support it...well, heck, it can barely support its residents...
Calfornia seriuosly needs one huge integrated rail system. I don't like NYC, but NYC has one of the most efficient people-moving systems i've ever seen in the US (however, Asia's metro areas are superior....).
anyways.. i'm getting way off topic.
Everyone drive safe!!! be safe! and enjoy the holiday!!
SD is supposedly a "tourist spot," yet the road infrastructure can't even support it...well, heck, it can barely support its residents...
Calfornia seriuosly needs one huge integrated rail system. I don't like NYC, but NYC has one of the most efficient people-moving systems i've ever seen in the US (however, Asia's metro areas are superior....).
anyways.. i'm getting way off topic.
Everyone drive safe!!! be safe! and enjoy the holiday!!
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Some Secrets of the Star-Spangled Banner
by Richard Weylman
On July 4th, Americans everywhere celebrate our country?s independence. The National Anthem of the United States of America , written by Francis Scott Key, is a song that stirs strong emotions in us. Here is a description of the events that led to the writing of our nation?s great Anthem, taken from the words of noted writer Isaac Asimov:
In 1812, the United States went to war with Great Britain , primarily over freedom of the Seas. For two years, we held off the British and our seamen proved better? Great Britain turned its attention to the United States, launching a three-pronged attack.
The northern prong was to come down Lake Champlain toward New York and seize parts of New England . The southern prong was to go up the Mississippi , take New Orleans and paralyze the west. The central prong was to head for the Mid-Atlantic States and then attack Baltimore , the greatest port south of New York . ?
On September 12, [the British] arrived and found 1,000 men in Fort McHenry . If the British wished to take Baltimore , they would have to take the fort. On one of the British ships was an aged physician, William Beanes, who had been arrested in Maryland and brought along as a prisoner. Francis Scott Key, a lawyer and friend, had come to the ship to negotiate his release. As twilight deepened, Key and Beans saw the American flag flying over Fort McHenry . But toward morning the bombardment ceased, and a dread silence fell. ?
As dawn began to brighten the eastern sky, Key and Beanes stared out at the fort, trying to see which flag flew over it. After it was all finished, Key wrote a four stanza poem telling the events of that night called ?The Defense of Fort McHenry ? [and] for obvious reasons, Key?s work became known as ?The Star Spangled Banner,? and in 1931, Congress declared it the official anthem of the United States . Presumably, the old doctor is speaking. This is what he asks Key:
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, through the perilous fight,
o?er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly steaming?
and the rocket?s 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?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mist of the deep
Where the foe?s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breze, 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 on 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!
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 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.
oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
between their loved homes and the war?s desolation,
blest with victory and peace, may the heaven ? rescued land
praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
then conquer we must, for our cause is just,
and this be our motto ? ?in God is our trust.?
and the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
o?er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
God Bless America .
by Richard Weylman
On July 4th, Americans everywhere celebrate our country?s independence. The National Anthem of the United States of America , written by Francis Scott Key, is a song that stirs strong emotions in us. Here is a description of the events that led to the writing of our nation?s great Anthem, taken from the words of noted writer Isaac Asimov:
In 1812, the United States went to war with Great Britain , primarily over freedom of the Seas. For two years, we held off the British and our seamen proved better? Great Britain turned its attention to the United States, launching a three-pronged attack.
The northern prong was to come down Lake Champlain toward New York and seize parts of New England . The southern prong was to go up the Mississippi , take New Orleans and paralyze the west. The central prong was to head for the Mid-Atlantic States and then attack Baltimore , the greatest port south of New York . ?
On September 12, [the British] arrived and found 1,000 men in Fort McHenry . If the British wished to take Baltimore , they would have to take the fort. On one of the British ships was an aged physician, William Beanes, who had been arrested in Maryland and brought along as a prisoner. Francis Scott Key, a lawyer and friend, had come to the ship to negotiate his release. As twilight deepened, Key and Beans saw the American flag flying over Fort McHenry . But toward morning the bombardment ceased, and a dread silence fell. ?
As dawn began to brighten the eastern sky, Key and Beanes stared out at the fort, trying to see which flag flew over it. After it was all finished, Key wrote a four stanza poem telling the events of that night called ?The Defense of Fort McHenry ? [and] for obvious reasons, Key?s work became known as ?The Star Spangled Banner,? and in 1931, Congress declared it the official anthem of the United States . Presumably, the old doctor is speaking. This is what he asks Key:
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, through the perilous fight,
o?er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly steaming?
and the rocket?s 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?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mist of the deep
Where the foe?s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breze, 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 on 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!
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 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.
oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
between their loved homes and the war?s desolation,
blest with victory and peace, may the heaven ? rescued land
praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
then conquer we must, for our cause is just,
and this be our motto ? ?in God is our trust.?
and the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
o?er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
God Bless America .
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