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Our National Anthem is the Star-Spangled Banner
Yours is God Save the Queen
Both are symbols of national identity.
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Our National Anthem is the Star-Spangled BannerSo why do people ie you Americans amongst us make such a big deal about your flag?
Why the saluting and reciting stuff to it, and putting your hands across your hearts when saluting it etc?
Please give me an answer I really want to get it, cos I dont at the moment
Thanks for the replies, the only thing I would say in response is that we dont put our hands over our hearts and recite stuff to our queen first thing in the morning before we start school.
Yes we would bow (well I would, if we ever met her) but this is as a mark of respect to her - she is a person, not an inanimate object.
Yours is God Save the Queen
Please could someone explain to the foreigner why is is so important?
Wow...the pledge didn't mention God until later...in 1954!
I knew he chose not to wear a flag on his lapel but this is news to me.
Is this something new?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/anthem.asp
Looks like he does salute the flag in these video's don't you think? I think there are a lot of damaging rumors.
obama has been fighting this rumor a lot, it isn't true
he has several pages in his website set up called "Know the Facts" to tell his side of the story, here is a page about the false e-mail about him not pledging allegiance and all that http://www.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/11/12/obama_is_a_patriot.php
and I am not an all out obama supporter, I just hate to see lies keep going
Did you read all the way through the snopes.com article? It says that there is ONE photo in which Obama is shown NOT standing with his hand over his heart, and that though the phot says it was "not saluting the flag," in fact, the event was not reciting the pledge, it was the playing of the national anthem.
Snopes also shows many clips and many images of Obama with his hand over his heart while reciting the pledge.
Exedus 23:1 "Do not spread false reports. Do not help a wicked man by being a malicious witness."
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