RE: TOLEDO SHOW and ETOC 2012
So I went back to the Scupper in Baltimore for dinner another evening recently, shared the story above, and was sitting across from a guy who knows what he is talking about. Like he saw Sudam's flintstone houses (he build for his grandkids after killing their fathers ((his daughter's husbands after they tried an unsuccessful coup back in the '90s)). You can imagine where he's been over the last 10 years. Like he's been in the thick of it. So he asks me, "Do you know the rest of the National Anthem?" I replied that, "Well I recall it was evangelical in nature". Somewhat, so here it goes the last stanza:
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory 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
So, short story long, that was a very fine National Anthem sung to open up the ETOC last night.
Have a great day guys!
- Don