Posted on 09/14/2021 6:41:10 PM PDT by Conservat1
On this day in 1814, a 35-year-old lawyer named Francis Scott Key watches a British fleet shell Baltimore's Ft McHenry. The poem he writes about the bombardment will later be set to music and become America's national anthem. pic.twitter.com/FtPoEVYeUO— Military History Now (@MilHistNow) September 13, 2021
He wrote it at this https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2014/06/where-did-francis-scott-key-write-his-famous-lines.html hotel.
The original words to the tune can be read here, and an earlier patriotic song (in support of John Adams) written to the tune can be read here.
It is heartwrenching to think about all those who sacrificed for our freedom over the years only to have so many ingrates now populating our country.
Don’t tell any monument destroyers— but the Commandant of Fort McHenry was Major George Armistead, who commissioned the huge flag that is forever after known as the Star Spangled Banner, his nephew a famous tragic figure at Gettysburg.
George Armistead U.S Army, (all 4 of his brothers also served in the War of 1812): his nephew Lewis Addison Armistead, Brigadier General Confederate Army died at Gettysburg making it all the way to the union rock wall/artillery in Pickett’s Charge on July 3, 1863, where he was killed. Year’s later Lewis Armistead’s sword which had disappeared, was returned.
The Armistead family saved the Star Spangled Banner until donating it in 1912 to the Smithsonian Institute where it is displayed today, still full of shot holes from cannon fire. Our Flag is Still There!
Uh, technically I think it was Sept 14 that they gave up the bombardment and consequently, Key saw it still flying and wrote.
Anyway, still wishing more would be done for Defenders’ Day as apparently it was way back. And that includes recognizing it for the important role against the British the entire “battle of Baltimore” was, not just Ft. McHenry.
It really is quite a story. The 5-mile earthworks the locals and militia and regulars built was unbelievable, and stopped the Brits dead in their tracks.
I know someone whose last name is Key and claims to be a direct descendant of Francis. She is embarrassed by him, a racist in her eyes.
Pretty disgusting.
OMG, so many decent people are “racist” in leftyts twisted eyes...
This song was written on September 14, 1814 by Brother Francis Scott Key. Key was a member of Concordia Lodge No. 13 in Maryland. So yes, he was a Freemason.
Not so many of them around so much ...
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