Re “Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem, California NAACP urges ... still the American flag was visible over the “ramparts” of Fort McHenry, at great peril to ...

O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly ... Clague: This whole stanza was cut from the National Anthem because of its mocking of the British. When we became allies with them in WWII ...

It's a rousing tale: Ramparts gallantly streaming ... "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially became our National Anthem on March 3, 1931 when President Herbert Hoover signed a Congressional ...