Link: www.bcpl.net (extern) (Archiv-Version vom 14.12.2006)@allIst Amerika das einzige Land der NATO welches bereit ist für Freiheit undGerechtigkeit zu kämpfen?
Die ganzen Gutmenschen in den anderen Ländern besondersEuropa sind ja nicht zu retten. Freiheit ja aber darum kämpfen nicht!
Oh, saycan you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight'slast gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' redglare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag wasstill there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of thefree and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists ofthe deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is thatwhich the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, halfdiscloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full gloryreflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that bandwho so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A homeand a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foulfootstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terrorof flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph dothwave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh! thus be itever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power thathath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner intriumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!