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Which National anthum to play?

Originally Posted by BagleyR

Friends:
I am a martial artist and have a protocol question
regarding the playing of national anthems at group events.
My art is Tae Kwan Doo/Moo Duk Kwan which is Korean. Our federation is
in and our founder is from Korea.
At all events (testing, tournaments, etc.) we display both the US and
Korean flags per the proper protocols.
We play both the US and Korean national anthems to opera each event.
My question is: Which anthem do we play first? and Why?
We often have guests at these events from out of the country and are
anxious to show proper respect.
Thank you for your attention to my questions. I look forward to your
reply.

If the event takes place in the United States, I would guess you should play the American national anthem first. Here's the logic: If you were having a procession of flags from different countries the American flag would go first. It follows, to me, anyway, that you would play the U.S. national anthem first. It's not a sign of disrespect to those from other nations, simply an acknowledgment of what county you are in.

Thanks for the question!

Sarah

I am very ashamed to even admit this, however I thought that it would be more shamful to my country not too. I can not for the life of me remember all the words to the "Star Spangled Banner". Could you please tell what they are??? Again I am very sorry...I don't know how I could forget one of my childhood favorates let alone my country's anthum

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the National Anthem

The Star-Spangled Banner


Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight'
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen, thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream;
'Tis the star-spangled banner: oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand,
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that has made and preserved us as a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust";
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Tune: Anacreon in Heaven

Written by Francis Scott Key on September 14th,1814.