This is really awesome!

Marine vet stands up at a TEA party rally and sings the final verse (there are 4 verses) of the Star Spangled Banner... heart warming to say the least. [Awesom]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0fQd...&feature=share

Wow I never knew that verse existed.

I never knew about this verse. It's flat out awesome!

Awesome[Beer]

I caught some blurb on the tube and it showed the amount of entertainers that have had to have "crib notes" when singing the NA.
Pathetic.

Wow, FREAKING AWESOME! God Bless America and God Bless that Marine
Semper Fi Brother!

Gave me the goose bumb-aroos!!

Is this the same one from 2 or 3 years ago, or a new one?

I'm not gonna exaggerate, but that is awesome! I watched it 3 times...

Thank you for sharing [Beer]

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Originally Posted by Irving

Is this the same one from 2 or 3 years ago, or a new one?

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No idea.. I was born yesterday! [Tooth]

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Originally Posted by Irving

Is this the same one from 2 or 3 years ago, or a new one?

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Yes, same one, but always good to get a refresh on something most members hadn't seen yet ~ esp when it's powerful like this.

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Originally Posted by Tinelement

Gave me the goose bumb-aroos!!

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Same here... that song (regardless of verse- which I knew there was more to it just didn't know what it said) always gives me the chills!
Here is the song in it's entirety for you all:

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Originally Posted by Star Spangled Banner

O say can you see by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in 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 band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath 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 in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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He was singing the 4th verse by the way. [Beer]
[Salute]

Not gonna lie that was pretty awesome.

AMEN!!!

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Originally Posted by Tinelement

Gave me the goose bumb-aroos!!

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x2 Never knew it existed. Thank You!