On this day in history, September 14, 1814, American 'flag was still there' after attack on Fort McHenry
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American Francis Scott Key awoke on the morning of Sept. 14, 1814, to find that "our flag was still there" after horrific 25-hour British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.
"Mother earth … was vomiting shot and shell in a sheet of fire and brimstone." — Francis Scott Key "The rocket's red glare/The bombs bursting in air/Gave proof through the night/That our flag was still there." The state of Maryland honors the defense of Fort McHenry with Defenders Day each Sept. 12. Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
We know his words today as our national anthem.
"The rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air/Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there," Key wrote over the next two days.
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