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FReeper Canteen ~ The Star Spangled Banner ~ 14 September 2015
Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !!
| The Canteen Crew
Posted on 09/13/2015 5:00:29 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
~ Star Spangled Banner ~ Written by Francis Scott Key (1814)
Canteen Mission Statement
Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before.
The War of 1812 had been a particularly nasty conflict with the British. They had burned down the Capitol and the White House in Washington, and were set on taking the port of Baltimore, which was protected in part by Fort McHenry, just to the south. On September 7th, 1814, during the build-up to the attack on Baltimore, two Americans, Colonel John Skinner and a lawyer and part-time poet by the name of Francis Scott Key, had gone out to one of the British ships. They had come to negotiate the release of Dr William Beanes, a friend of Key who had been seized following the attack on Washington. The British agreed, but all three had learned too much about the forthcoming attack on Baltimore and so were detained by the British on board the frigate Surprise until it was over. The attack started on September 12th, 1814, and after an initial exchange of fire, the fleet withdrew to form an arc just outside the range of Fort McHenry's fire. Skinner, Beanes and Key watched much of the bombardment from the British deck. The major attack started in heavy rain on the morning of September 13th. Just under three miles in the distance the three men caught glimpses of the star-shaped fort with its huge flag - 42ft long, with 8 red stripes, 7 white stripes and 15 white stars, and specially commissioned to be big enough that the British could not possibly fail to see it from a distance. In the dark of the night of the 13th, the shelling suddenly stopped. Through the darkness they couldn't tell whether the British forces had been defeated, or the fort had fallen. As the rain cleared, and the sun began to rise, Key peered through the lifting darkness anxious to see if the flag they had seen the night before was still flying. And so it was that he scribbled on the back of an envelope the first lines of a poem he called Defense of Fort M'Henry. O, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming
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To: left that other site
Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...hope your day has gone well.
Ready for Monday’s lessons?
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:33:22 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
Good evening, Kathy!
Lovely thread, thank you.
HUGS
To: Kathy in Alaska
Yes...I have a slightly different line-up Monday, due to the Jewish Holiday.
Happy New Year! :-)
May Your Name Be Inscribed in the Book of Life.
((((HUGS))))
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:37:03 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: left that other site
I ought to program Ernest Bloch’s “Synagogue Service” from the Thirties. Leonard Bernstein did a recording in the Sixties that set the standard. I’ll have to investigate.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:39:46 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: Publius
I used to play the organ for a cantor who did the High Holiday Services at a Nursing Home.
There was no sheet music, I would just start in Gm and follow his body language.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:43:03 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: chajin
Welcome to the Canteen, chajin...what a great story.
Thanks for sharing it. And it makes sense. We just don’t know the last verse.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:44:53 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: left that other site
You mentioned that back when I posted Schubert’s setting of the 92nd Psalm in Hebrew. That’s quite a talent.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:48:09 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: Publius
It grew since then! LOL!
I am very proud of my students! :-)
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:49:49 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Publius
Ooops...I answered the wrong comment...You were talking about the Rosh Hoshanah Service, not the Sax Duet! LOL!
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:51:57 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: left that other site
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:53:23 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: Publius
I will give it a listen! :-)
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:55:46 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: chajin
More information...thank you.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:56:12 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: The Mayor
Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.
Ready to take on the new week? Have a good one.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:58:10 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
To: Liberty Valance
Good evening, Liberty....I love that video!!
Thanks....
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posted on
09/13/2015 6:16:19 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: mountainlion
WOW...can those kids harmonize!!
Thanks, mountainlion.
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posted on
09/13/2015 6:20:56 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: IndispensableDestiny
Welcome to the Canteen, IndispensableDestiny.
I may have to go looking for a version where they sing the fourth verse.
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posted on
09/13/2015 6:26:10 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
09/13/2015 6:26:57 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: SandRat
Good evening, Sand...((HUGS))...you boys still batching it?
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posted on
09/13/2015 6:29:18 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: PROCON
least I could do, have a good one :-)
No way I can blame hitting the wrong post on Spell Check....
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posted on
09/13/2015 6:32:42 PM PDT
by
EXCH54FE
(Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
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