Freedom: It’s more than the words in a song
First Amendment helps to protect ‘land of the free’
The hardest line to sing in the “Star-Spangled Banner” is also the most important. “O’er the land of the free, ...” with its character-building high note, has been the bane of even professional singers.
That’s probably appropriate. Becoming “the land of the free” wasn’t all that easy either.
On Dec. 15, America will commemorate the 221st birthday of the Bill of Rights, the most extraordinary and influential guarantee of individual freedoms in world history.
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