tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146148016062694502.post6597227816456355256..comments2024-01-05T12:03:52.460-05:00Comments on No Lawyers - Only Guns and Money: "In Congress, July 4, 1776" (Updated)John Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03151468462458613615noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146148016062694502.post-45071250119202137632019-07-04T08:33:44.676-04:002019-07-04T08:33:44.676-04:0056 men stepped up and signed that document.
Yes, ...56 men stepped up and signed that document.<br /><br />Yes, all were white men.<br /><br />Yes, some were slave owners.<br /><br />But,<br /><br />All lost some, and some lost all, of there fortunes;<br /><br />Some lost there lives.<br /><br />But,<br /><br />None lost there honor.zaarin7https://www.blogger.com/profile/05738896442808421798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146148016062694502.post-20769015593126824222016-07-05T23:58:11.764-04:002016-07-05T23:58:11.764-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.JOHN LUCAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15115918195252706357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146148016062694502.post-16601127383502856132016-07-04T07:52:52.748-04:002016-07-04T07:52:52.748-04:00O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What...O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,<br />What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,<br />Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight<br />O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?<br />And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,<br />Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,<br />O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave<br />O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<br /><br />On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep<br />Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,<br />What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,<br />As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?<br />Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,<br />In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,<br />’Tis the star-spangled banner—O long may it wave<br />O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<br /><br />And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,<br />That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion<br />A home and a Country should leave us no more?<br />Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.<br />No refuge could save the hireling and slave<br />From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,<br />And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave<br />O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<br /><br />O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand<br />Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!<br />Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land<br />Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!<br />Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,<br />And this be our motto – “In God is our trust,”<br />And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave<br />O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.Fidelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14623013337654868540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146148016062694502.post-8378961673886411672015-07-05T12:38:00.165-04:002015-07-05T12:38:00.165-04:00Yep. Thanks for catching that. It was early in the...Yep. Thanks for catching that. It was early in the AM for me. John Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03151468462458613615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146148016062694502.post-71697556922402564592015-07-04T16:09:12.688-04:002015-07-04T16:09:12.688-04:00Sacred honor - what an alien concept for today'...Sacred honor - what an alien concept for today's fools, I tried to have someone tell me what honor was.. not a clue. Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794620086508373660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146148016062694502.post-59180093578361389582015-07-04T13:01:31.508-04:002015-07-04T13:01:31.508-04:00"...why our founding fathers decided to becom..."...why our founding fathers decided to become citizens rather than to stay citizens of the British Empire."<br /><br />Did you mean to type "subjects of the British empire."?Nick L. EMT-Pnoreply@blogger.com