𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕡𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝔻𝕒𝕪

Happy Independence Day to the

United States of America

God's country

the opportunity for

land ownership and

religious freedoms

filled old ships sailing

from Europe

Pilgrims

were Puritans fleeing

religious persecution

in Europe

the old ship Speedwell

deemed unseaworthy

so the Mayflower got her name

in the history books

long story short

1730s evangelical revivals

awakened God-given

morality and equality

and a colonial unity

women preaching and

black ministers ordained

started paving the road

to freedom from

European government

George Washington and

Frederick Douglass

united in a real-life

chess game

1871 Cornwallis surrenders

toppling kings and queens

CHECKMATE

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"Star Spangled Banner" written by Francis Scott Key in 1812

"O say can you see, by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bomb 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?

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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!

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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 wash'd out their foul footstep's 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.

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O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand between their lov'd 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 preserv'd 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."