Cleats by Bill Hinds for June 11, 2023

Nowadays, someone will call out that story and point out how inaccurate and messed up the history of our nation truly is.

Since people are now becoming more aware of revisionist history, I wonder how this storyline would be adapted into an episode.

Very, very good Mr Hinds! Thank you for this incredible bit of our history that you have woven into your arc. I for one really appreciate you giving the story life. Thank you!

Here’s the tavern song:

https://youtu.be/3l-n64NWHS4

The British had recruited a number of enslaved African Americans to fight on their behalf in this war, on the promise that they could thus secure their liberty. But Key himself was a slaveholder, and his third stanza glories in the routing and destruction of those rebel slaves who dared to fight for the sake of freedom: “No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.”

Katie won’t be asked to sing that verse, I trust, and doesn’t need to know about it at her age. But it’s something that Americans ought to learn about “the land of the free and the home of the brave” by the time they grow up, and something they should never forget. There are things to be proud of, and things not to be proud of, about the US, as there are about any country. But if you’re going to revel in everything that’s good about a country, you should also face up to and come to grips with what’s bad.

Never a disappointment with the comments…..it is a comic strip. History is history. But let’s be sure to show our brilliance and tell everyone…”there is bad history out there and I am just the one to tell you.”

4 million recent illegals tell you anything?

I would say change it to “God Bless the USA” by Lee Greenwood but then there would be all of these people who claim God doesn’t exist or don’t want to hear about God. Therefore, forget that we have a national anthem since most people don’t care about their country anymore nor will stick up for it.