O! say can you see by the dawn\u2019s early light
\nWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight\u2019s last gleaming.
\nWhose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
\nO\u2019er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming.
\nAnd the rockets\u2019 red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
\nGave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
\nOh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
\nO\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<\/p>\n
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
\nWhere the foe\u2019s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
\nWhat is that which the breeze, o\u2019er the towering steep,
\nAs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
\nNow it catches the gleam of the morning\u2019s first beam,
\nIn full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
\nTis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
\nO\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
\nAnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore
\nThat the havoc of war and the battle\u2019s confusion,
\nA home and a country should leave us no more!
\nTheir blood has washed out their foul footsteps\u2019 pollution.
\nNo refuge could save the hireling and slave
\nFrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
\nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
\nO\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<\/p>\n
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
\nBetween their loved home and the war\u2019s desolation!
\nBlest with victory and peace, may the heav\u2019n rescued land
\nPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
\nThen conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
\nAnd this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.\u2019
\nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
\nO\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<\/p>\n
–Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)<\/p>\n
\nThe Bob Woodruff Foundation wishes you all, esp those in uniform, a safe & Happy 4th of July! #IndependenceDay<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/pSj5pwjmWv<\/a><\/p>\n
— Bob Woodruff Foundation (@Stand4Heroes) July 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n