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Copyrights reserved by the author. If in doubt, please click on 'Copyrights' for details. An Open Letter to FRANCIS SCOTT KEY by Don Fraser
Yes Mr. Key,since you asked, it is still waving, it has waved through many battles. There have been a few stars added to it, which proves that all of us are united. We salute our flag every day when we go to school, and we always pledge allegance to it, and when we are grown the men take their hats off and the women put their hand over their heart, as our flag goes by. Yes Mr. Key, we are Americans, and we will keep our flag waving through eternity. And, you ask, is it still waving? We Americans have proved it is and it always will. For we are Americans, and we stand by our red, white and blue. There will be more stars, and the stripes will get broader but our flag will always wave. Mr. Key, you wrote a great song, we use it for America's national anthem but never ask 'does it still wave?' No enemy of our country has ever landed on our soil since you wrote that beautiful song. The closest one has come was when a sneak attack sunk many of our ships, in what we now call Pearl Harbor; in what we now call the Hawaiian Islands. In your day Mr. Key they were known as the Sandwich Islands. As our ships went down our flag was still waving. As our country went futher into the war, a small island in the Pacific Ocean was captured by the enemy but after a long and furious battle, four, tired United States marines lifted our red white and blue for the world to see our flag waving. That war was called world war two. we have been in many wars, world war one, our flag waved over Gemany in triumph. In Korea we led all of the free world against Communism, and were proud to have our flag waving. We tried to help our allies, as promised, in VietNam; we fought there for many years, and left with our heads high and our flag still waving. Now, on September the eleventh, the worst act of terror happened to this grand country. Two flying machines flew into very large buildings, killing six thousand people, and another one crashed into our military headquarters, in our capital city. In both places the flag still waves, showing the world we are proud to be Americans. Yes Mr. Key our flag does, and always will, wave over the place we love.
The End.
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