#340 "The Star-Spangled Banner"

My favorite patriotic song!  This song came to mean so much to me when I sang with "The Grand Land Singers" in 1976-77.  I can't explain the feelings I had as I sang this song on stage in front of the huge flag we used as our backdrop. 

Bottom row, second from left.  June 10, 1977 at the East Los Angeles Stake Center

My last concert

(June 10, 1977)

Bottom row, second from left.  My last concert on June 10, 1977 at the East Los Angeles Stake Center.  This was the night I met my first husband, Michael Frank Ramsey.

My favorite verse of our National Anthem:

Oh, thus be it ever, when free men shall stand

Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!

Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land

Praise the Pow'r 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!