National Flag
The United State's national flag consists of 3 colors, red, white, and blue. starting with red there are 13 red and white horizontal stripes that represent the 13 original colonies of the country. The left corner is filled with a blue box in which are and 48 white stars which represent the 48 states, at the time Alaska and Hawaii were not part of the U.S. during WWII so they do not have a star.
National PledgeThe Pledge of Allegiance is the United States' national pledge. When you do it you look at the National Flag, place your right hand on your heart and say: "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
National MottoThe national motto of the United States is "In God is our trust."
National AnthemAmerica's national anthem is "The Star-Spangled Banner", it was a written by Francis Scott Key during the battle of Fort McHenry, It was turned into a song with lyrics and made into the national anthem. These are the lyrics:
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 homes 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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