 As Ronald Reagan said, and this is where I came up with the title for the book, Twilight's Last Gleaming, is that our national anthem doesn't start with a declaration. It doesn't say that we are the greatest and will always be the greatest nation on the face of the earth. No. Our national anthem starts with a question. Hey, is the flag there? Can you still see it flying? Have the British overrun us? No. The answer is the flag was still there.