EXPRESSION: GOD BLESS AMERICA

During basketball season, I only had two jobs. 1. Take stats of how much time each player played. 2. Play the national anthem before home games with Laynie. Let me tell you, #2 was probably one of the most stressful jobs I've ever had (darn you, six silent seconds before the first note!). But thanks to that experience, I can guarantee to you that (when I randomly break out as a super awesome singing star) I will NOT be one of those pathetic celebrities who forgets the lyrics to the National Anthem on live TV (I mean really, people)! So in honor of our country's 237th birthday, I thought I'd remind you . . .

Oh say, can you see

By the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hailed

At the twilight's last gleaming

Whose broad stripes and bright stars

Through the perilous fight

'Or the ramparts we watched

Were so gallantly streaming

And the rockets' red glare

The bombs bursting in air

Gave proof through the night

That our flag was still there

Oh say, does that star spangled banner yet wave

'Or the land of the free

And the home of the brave

So I'd like to give a big THANK YOU to 1. God for blessing our nation far beyond what we deserve, and 2. our soldiers who fight so bravely and give up so much. Have a happy 4th! 

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