The Star-Spangled Banner
July 13, 2013
In case you missed it on July Fourth, here is a very interesting article on the fights in American history over the Star-Spangled Banner. I really had no idea about most of this. I guess I should have. It all makes me not want to hear the song even more.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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