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OT: The NFL is a joke
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<blockquote data-quote="flyfishingfrog" data-source="post: 3026145" data-attributes="member: 70903"><p>that is not what the third verse of "The Defense of Fort McHenry" is about at all - which is what you are trying to talk about.</p><p></p><p>First - the Star-Spangled Banner does not have a 3rd or 4th verse - when Francis Scott Key "wrote it" he actually took the existing "Defense of" poem he wrote on the ship in 1814, shortened it to two verses and put it to music. So people that try to say there is a longer version are wrong because it is a totally different piece (poem vs song, 4 stanzas vs 2 verses, no music vs music) but that never stopped someone from making up lies to defend their opinion.</p><p></p><p>Second - the stanza you are talking about is directly related to the fact that the British hired mercenaries from the American colonies to fight for them and also offered escaped slaves not only freedom but a chance at property ownership if they fought for the British in the Colonial Marines. The line "No refuge could save the hireling and slave" means those two groups - hired soldiers from the colonies and freed slaves - would not be able to "hide" or be given quarter because of their status - i.e. not an actual British soldier.</p><p></p><p>But again - let's not let the actual truth get in the way of the leftist argument that America and anything that represents it sucks and should be banned or changed.....</p><p></p><p>Interesting - those Colonial Marines who survived were relocated to Trinidad and Tobago after the British lost....wonder how they actual natives of those islands feel about the "Merikins"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flyfishingfrog, post: 3026145, member: 70903"] that is not what the third verse of "The Defense of Fort McHenry" is about at all - which is what you are trying to talk about. First - the Star-Spangled Banner does not have a 3rd or 4th verse - when Francis Scott Key "wrote it" he actually took the existing "Defense of" poem he wrote on the ship in 1814, shortened it to two verses and put it to music. So people that try to say there is a longer version are wrong because it is a totally different piece (poem vs song, 4 stanzas vs 2 verses, no music vs music) but that never stopped someone from making up lies to defend their opinion. Second - the stanza you are talking about is directly related to the fact that the British hired mercenaries from the American colonies to fight for them and also offered escaped slaves not only freedom but a chance at property ownership if they fought for the British in the Colonial Marines. The line "No refuge could save the hireling and slave" means those two groups - hired soldiers from the colonies and freed slaves - would not be able to "hide" or be given quarter because of their status - i.e. not an actual British soldier. But again - let's not let the actual truth get in the way of the leftist argument that America and anything that represents it sucks and should be banned or changed..... Interesting - those Colonial Marines who survived were relocated to Trinidad and Tobago after the British lost....wonder how they actual natives of those islands feel about the "Merikins" [/QUOTE]
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