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Let's Celebrate The 4th Of July By Updating The Star Spangled Banner: A Call For Wellness-Based Reforms To De-Glorify War and Promote Peaceful Thinking

Thursday July 3, 2008

Quick quiz, Mr. and Mrs. Patriot Person about to celebrate our wonderful Independence Day holiday: Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner (henceforth SSB) and in what year did it become the national anthem?

Francis Scott Key wrote it in 1814 during the Battle of Baltimore (two years into the War of 1812 against Great Britain) while on a truce ship a few miles from Fort Mc Henry. Congress did not make his little poem into our national anthem until 1931.

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If you agree, and are feeling poetic, patriotic and/or particular about words to sing concerning the virtues of the homeland, feel free to suggest a few reforms of your own. Or, if you prefer perilous fights, rockets and exploding bombs, well, feel free to suggest hands off the bangled banner.

But at least let's resolve to continue ignoring those other three stanzas of the SSB. Yike.

Be well. Look on the bright side of life.

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