Every year this time, amid grilled foods and sparkling projectiles, someone you know will still be patriotic enough to sing the National Anthem. "The Star-Spangled Banner" is difficult to sing and God bless the singer who makes it through, but would it surprise you to know that there are three more verses?
Here's a YouTube video showing a former Marine singing the National Anthem's final verse:
Let's not let these pieces of our history disappear.
Here's a YouTube video showing a former Marine singing the National Anthem's final verse:
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n 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!
Between their loved home and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n 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!
Let's not let these pieces of our history disappear.
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