There was a guy (who shall remain nameless for this blog) who yesterday spoke about the National Anthem. Now I don't know if he's really this dumb of if he said it for ratings, but he criticized the Anthem, and did it poorly.
First, he said he didn't know why it had military themes. "Rockets red glare/ Bombs bursting in air." Uh... because it is a poem that Francis Scott Key wrote while on a british ship watching an American fort get the crap bombarded out of it. He was watching to see if they surrendered ("Does the banner still wave?"). People liked it and set it to music. It became popular, and was declared our national anthem. Read some history you moron.
Second, he went after "Home of the Brave." He said "Are we the only country with brave people?" Yesterday, as he spoke, it was June 6th. Again, read history. Yesterday was D-Day, when the Allies landed on five beaches of a region of northern France, called Normandy. They were invading Nazi occupied territory. There were allies from England, France, Canada, and yes, America. The other Allies landed on virtually unguarded beaches. We landed on the only two heavily defended beaches, none more than Omaha. Now, our allies didn't know that the bunkers were empty, but still, we took the worst of the fighting. Our boys lost more men on that day, than any other single day in the European Theater. They had to get past machine gun nests, artillery, masses of foot soldiers, and yes, even the piles of their fellow soldiers. They had to ascend cliffs unprotected and blow up concrete bunkers. Said the commanding generals on both sides, the war in Europe was won or lost on Omaha. And the greatest generation took the beach.
If you don't like the Anthem, that's your right. But don't be stupid about it.
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