June 14 is Flag Day ... The original song was about a sixth-century Greek poet named Anacreon who wrote about drinking and womanizing. Before “The Star-Spangled Banner” was adopted as the ...

WASHINGTON — The original, handwritten manuscript of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and the flag that inspired the song’s lyrics will be displayed together at the Smithsonian in Washington ...

There is more to the story of this flag than meets the eye Victoria Altman The Star Spangled Banner, the flag that ... 2014. Read the original version here.

Holmes wrote this extra verse, long after Francis Scott Key wrote the original. The U.S. was in the ... with the traitor that dares to defile The flag of her stars and the page of her story!

The Star-Spangled Banner” is played at sports games, school events, and military ceremonies, but do you know the meaning of our national anthem? The song’s centuries-old history makes it worth ...

Decades of careful restoration and study have revealed a lot about the flag that flew over Fort ... But a gaping hole at the center of the original Star-Spangled Banner presents a question that ...

They didn’t know until they saw the flag that we’d won, so this is the genesis of the poem. O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Key saw it and wrote a poem that became the national anthem. The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the ...

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 ...

Baltimore flagmaker Mary Pickersgill delivered. Original Star Spangled Banner, on display at Museum of American History (Smithsonian) The flag raised on the morning of September 14th was a ...