De Pledge of Allegiance, of Belofte van Trouw, werd officieel op 22 juni 1942, hoewel de tekst voor het eerst werd gepubliceerd in 1892, ter ere van de 400ste verjaardag van de ontdekking van Amerika. Hij werd voor het eerst gebruikt in publieke scholen bij de viering van Columbus Day op 12 oktober 1892.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Star-Spangled Banner\u2018 is het volkslied van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika. De tekst komt uit \u201cDefence of Fort McHenry, een gedicht geschreven in 1814 door Francis Scott Key, na het bombardement van Fort McHenry door de Britse Marine.
\nHet gedicht werd op de melodie van het Britse lied \u2018The Anacreontic Song\u2019 gezet en werd \u2018The Star-Spangled Banner\u2019 genoemd.<\/p>\n
\n0 say! can you see, by the dawn\u2019s early light,
\nWhat so proudly we hail\u2019d at the twilight\u2019s last gleaming?
\nWhose broad stripes and bright stars, thro\u2019 the perilous fight,
\nO\u2019er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
\nAnd the rockets\u2019 red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
\ngave proof thro\u2019 the night that our flag was still there.
\n0 say! does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave
\n0\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
On the shore, dimly seen thro\u2019 the mist of the deep,<\/p>\n
Where the foe\u2019s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
\nWhat is that which the breeze, o\u2019er the towering steep,
\nAs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
\nNow it catches the gleam of the morning\u2019s first beam,
\nIn full glory reflected now shines in the stream.
\n\u2018Tis the Star-Spangled Banner. 0 long may it wave
\nO\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,<\/p>\n
That the havoc of war and the battle\u2019s confusion
\nA home and a country should leave us no more?
\nTheir blood has wash\u2019d out their foul footstep\u2019s pollution.
\nNo refuge could save the hireling and slave
\nFrom the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
\nAnd the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave
\n0\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand<\/p>\n
Between their lov\u2019d home and war\u2019s desolation,
\nBlest with vict\u2019ry and peace, may the Heav\u2019n-rescued land
\nPraise the pow\u2019r that hath made and preserv\u2019d us a nation.
\nThen conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
\nAnd this be our motto, \u2018In God is Our Trust.\u2019
\nAnd the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
\nO\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
De vlag van de Verenigde Staten, ook wel \u2018Stars and Stripes\u2018 of \u2018Star-Spangled Banner\u2018 genoemd, is ontstaan op 14 juni 1777. In de loop van het bestaan van de VS heeft de vlag wel verschillende wijzigingen doorgemaakt. In een resolutie werd het eerste ontwerp van de nieuwe vlag vastgelegd. “Resolved, that the flag of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[82,83],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.amerikareis.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/AmerikaanseVlag.jpg?fit=1200%2C400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerikareis.info\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerikareis.info\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerikareis.info\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerikareis.info\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerikareis.info\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerikareis.info\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerikareis.info\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerikareis.info\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerikareis.info\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerikareis.info\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}