"Oh say can you see,
By the dawn's early light,"
yes, they see
"What so proudly we hailed,
At the twilight's last gleaming?"
our flag, ripped, tattered, there....
"Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
Through the perilous fight,"
the bombs, oh the bombs rain down
"O'er the ramparts we watched,
Were so gallantly streaming."
still she was there, rugged, worn
"And thy rocket's red glare,
Thy bombs bursting in air,"
on the roadsides, in the barracks
"Gave proof through thee night,
That our flag was still there."
still there, they hadn't gotten her
"Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave,"
so battered, still flying,
colors not running, standing strong
"O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave."*
she flies with the breaths
of the fallen who keep us free
"Star Spangled Banner" Francis Scott Key
Happy Independence Day America!