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I love the Star Spangled Banner. Love it. I know more than one verse and I love the words and the variations between verses, though I realize some people get confused with the mixing of one- or two-syllable words in the same place in different verses. However, I don’t find the argument that people don’t know the words a good one for not having it as the official anthem. I’m sure there are plenty of countries who don’t know all the words to their anthems, and is there a single patriotic American song that we do know all the words to? I’m Proud to Be An American? I think a difficulty of changing the anthem now is that the ever-growing popularity of separation of church and state will prevent any song having anything to do with God from being made the anthem. Plus, people are getting touchier about war and manifest destiny.Don’t forget that it’s okay that it’s about the flag. The flag is a symbol for freedom, our country, hard work, loyalty, and . . . dare I say it? God’s promised land.

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I’ll represent the opposite view. I love the Star Spangled Banner. It is the best national anthem ever. All other national anthems (except France’s and England’s which are even older than ours) are written by committees, are dull and boring, and are unpasteurized propaganda. You have to love a country that has an old drinking song for its national anthem. Really. That alone will keep us from becoming Nazis or Commies. The SSB has personality and character, even quirkiness. It’s honest. It is the USA at its unselfconscious best. You can’t say that about the sentimental dreck of ‘America the Beautiful.’ There’s nothing ‘anthem’ about ATB. It doesn’t come close to moving one like the first few notes of the SSB does, which are unmistakable. Touching. Stirring, even.All the objections listed are actually its strengths. Who cares if you can’t sing it well? Are we having a contest? Is somebody recording this? The glory and dignity is in the attempt. The words to the first verse (the only one we sing) are as easy to learn as ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ and certainly as easy as ATB. You can’t complain about it being too long and then complain that we only sing one verse. Anything that a committee writes to “memorialize our entire history, culture, and country” is going to be totally insufferable. The SSB matches our flag perfectly. Accidental icons. Kitchen table design. Equally honest. Completely unpretentious. Totally unpoliticized. We should keep it. Which is fortunate, because we will. People have been trying to get rid of the SSB for a generation or two. Ain’t gonna happen.Happy 4th everybody.

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