And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Clague: This whole stanza was cut from the National Anthem because of its mocking of the ...

This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the ... The poem had four stanzas, although today many Americans only know the first.

Nov. 7): The NAACP wants the Star Spangled Banner removed as our National Anthem because the author was a slave owner and the third stanza of the poem that is the basis for the Anthem is “racist”.