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Originally Posted by kprocivic
i can read just fine
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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No kidding? Congratulations. Did you also read that was not written as a national anthem and that the song was never adopted with that stanza, or that it was not specific to slaves and that it is also regarding workers for material reward (company store men)?
It is not a valid argument that those 2 lines were ever part of our national anthem.