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Thanking God in our National Anthem

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02-10-2006 12:13 AM

Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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Appropiate and moving....reading the national anthem, I thought about these last words to it, and wonder if one day some will take offense at official praise to God.
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02-10-2006 11:47 AM 		Reply to: Message 6 by wiseman45
02-10-2006 11:43 AM

Re: Actually...
We were getting pounded by the Brits.....and they were all desperate to know whether the flag was still there....would we make it as nation.
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We forget how close we came to being defeated in the War of 1812.
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For example, Washington DC would have been completely burned and occupied if not for a freak storm, maybe a hurricane, but it didn't hit the southern states, that literally descended and blew the Brits away. They fled the storm, not us.
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