Re: CHAT: "La Bandera Estrellada"

--- J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...> wrote:

> I'm *hardly* what you would call an American patriot, but I must say
> I do love the
> American national anthem.  Most national anthems are in the
> imperative mode ("We're
> number one, and don't forget it!"), but the US is the only country I
> know whose anthem
> is in the interrogative mode ("Do you see the flag? Is it still
> there? Are we number
> one or aren't we?").
Yeah, it is different.  Francis Scott Key wrote it witnessing a battle
during the War of 1812.  It tells of hope and survival rather than
saccharine patriotic sentiment.  (Exactly my goal for the Tech anthem
when I finally get ready to give it words.  Nothing pretentious.)

DaW.

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