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To: Jimmy Valentine

Yes...and New Orleans. BUT, burning DC makes it a draw in SOME peoples’ minds.


4 posted on 08/30/2014 6:09:13 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Pharmboy

hey Hon - they didn’t burn Baltimore, did they?

25 hours of bombardment and the flag was still there, so the Brits up and sailed away

Francis Scott Key, released from being an involuntary observer on one of the warships, went (crawled?) to a nearby pub, ordered himself a well-deserved tall one (too bad no Natty Bo back then), and wrote a somewhat historically significant poem about it!


12 posted on 08/30/2014 6:56:44 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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