05/25/2020 - Black Panther - Memorial Day Beatdown

AO: Black Panther

When: 05/25/2020

PAX:

Number of Pax: 5

Pax Names: Brick, Dilly Dilly, Parks and Rec, Thomas Tank Engine, Trickle,

DR Names:

Number of FNGS: 0

FNG Names:

QIC: Brick


Introduction

This workout was a modified Murph breaking down each section into small parts to allow for time and each PAX ability level

Warm-O-Rama

20 SSH

10 Arm circles forward and back

20 Abe Vigoda

The Thang

8 rounds for time with a Vest

Run .25 mile

13 under doggies on pic-nick tables

25 Merkins

38 Squats

Circle of Trust

During the war of 1812 while being held prisoner on a British ship Francis Scott Key penned the words to the star spangled banner.  Watching as British bombarded Fort McHenry he spoke of the hope he felt each time he saw the flag.  Our national anthem is unique.  It doesn’t speak about our leaders, what our country looks like, our government, or brag of our great achievements.  Instead, the Star Spangled Banner depicts a time in American history when we were getting out asses handed to us.  Today on Memorial day we remember the Men and Women that died for our freedom, the Men and Women that fought for the hope that our flag stands for.  As the song says:

and the rockets red glare

the bombs bursting in air

gave proof through the night

that our flag was still there

 

It is when we are at our most scared, when the bombs and rockets are coming that we can look up to our flag and find hope in its ideals.  Instead of a prayer today I would like to end with a singing of our nations anthem.

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

Naked Man Moleskin

For fun I often ask my students to look at the lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner and explain why there are question marks.  Why do you think Francis Scott Key chose to put question marks in his poem?

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