U.S. National Anthem / Star Spangled Banner

The British relocated from the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Island to North America, which they named the United States of America. The countries' national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner was written by a British immigrant for the British immigrants.

The War of 1812 was fought between British Americans and Britains. Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner (originally a poem titled Defence of Fort M'Henry), after seeing the U.S. flag still flying after the British Navy's bombardment (continuous bombing) of Fort McHenry.

President Hoover designated The Star Spangled Banner as the official national anthem on March 3, 1931. Within the lyrics, you read the glamorization of Brits bombing Brits, as well as killing hirelings and slaves. The President of the United States designated the song as the official national anthem.

In 2026, British descendants, now identifying as Americans, expect all inhabitants of the United States to respect their flag and national anthem. They refuse to acknowledge a country that existed before their colonization and the fact that they uprooted blacks from their native lands and placed them in North America. They refuse to change the lyrics of the song to make it inclusive to all citizens.

An immigrant is a person who leaves their home country to move to and live in another country permanently.  Permanent Intent: Unlike temporary visitors, tourists, or short-term seasonal workers (often called non-immigrants), an immigrant relocates with the intent of staying long-term or permanently.

The British occupy and continue to claim ownership of a country that does not belong to them. They refuse to go back home. What gives them the right to demand that others respect THEIR national anthem?

Complete version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" showing spelling and punctuation from Francis Scott Key's manuscript in the Maryland Historical Society collection.

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?

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 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.

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.