[Palestrina]

It didn't hit me until reading it here, that the first verse, which everyone knows and sings, ends not in a statement, but a question:

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

It seems more important than ever that we continue to ask that question, and strive to keep the answer - "yes".

[firebrand]

Yes, I love that question at the end. It still gives me chills. Like a voice from the grave.