Thank you for reviewing this video. I am 64 years old and I learned this story in first grade. Every morning, the whole school would stand, face the flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance. Then we would sing the National Anthem. Sadly, they do not do that anymore. I come from a family with a large number of military men covering a few generations, including my father who got a Purple Heart in WWII. In my family, we learned early on that the very freedoms that Americans have today are because our military men and women gave their lives for it. I have never taken my freedom for granted. I tear up.every time I hear this song. This story is why Americans never let the flag touch the ground. This is also why we proudly display our flag in every government building, every school and on or in about half of American homes. Thank you again for your heartfelt reaction. Have a Blessed day.
The year was1814, Francis Scott Key wrote about y in a poem, people later turned his poem into the National Anthem!! The original poem and the flag are now in a museum!!
I have watched many people review all kinds of American things and one of the most common comments is that Americans are so patriotic, that you see people flying the American flag everywhere. We are, and we do. I hope this video helps you to understand some of that patriotism and why we hold our flag in such high regard. Love watching your reaction videos man, keep up the good work. Try reacting to some videos by the Fat Electrician for some real fun.
A real patriot would realize how fabricated this story is, and realize the part that makes me the most proud to be an American is left out. A real patriot doesn't need to announce he's a patriot or show how great his/her country is by flying a bunch of flags, others should already know by their actions. You know who else was extremely patriotic and loved to fly their flag everywhere?? The Nazis. A real patriot realizes that the flag is a symbol that's supposed to represent the principles this country were founded on, and the promises our founding document states. A real patriot knows that our enlisted men and woman take an oath to protect the constitution, not the president, a political party, or a piece of cloth, The Constitution of the United States of America, period, full stop! When your country stops living up to those principles, and honoring those promises, and when citizens are more concerned about appearing patriotic and more concerned about a piece of cloth, than the people and their freedoms that piece of cloth is supposed to represent, not some of them, but ALL OF THEM, then it becomes a hallow symbol, used to coerce political agendas, and demonize those who don't bow to it's authority. I promise you, if you truly knew our nations history, you'd know most of the founders would be disgusted by the people that consider themselves "patriots" today. I'm tired of being told I don't love my country because I want better for it, I'm tired of people pretending that we're this perfect nation, we've done some great things, for sure, but it's time to stop resting on past achievements. The very first sentence on the very first page of our constitution states "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union", if they thought we'd achieve a perfect Union at anytime, they wouldn't have wrote that line. It means we should ALWAYS be striving to be better, to do better. At what point in our history was doing that ever easy, or the popular thing to do, like it or not, our founders were the most progressive people on the planet at that time, now adays being progressive is a 4 letter word. We're the wealthiest nation ever to exist, yet out of every single developed nation, we have the largest wealth gap, worst health care system, employees have lowest pay, longest hours, least benefits and least representation, Vets sleeping in the street, hell, our infant mortality rate is higher that some 3rd world nations, and last year we slipped to #34 on the international freedom index, there are 33 other countries on this planet where the citizens enjoy more freedoms than U.S. citizens do. It's time for people to wake up, and I'm tired of fabricated stories like the one above making the rounds. If you're reading or watching something about American history for more than 15-20minutes and you don't feel a little awkward or ashamed at some point, you're not reading American History, you're reading American Mythology!! Sorry for the rant, wasn't specifically aimed at you, just been one of those weeks. Stay safe out there, look out for one n other.
Hey Nick, the Star Spangled Banner was not adopted to become the American National Anthem until 1931. Also the melody or the music of the Star Spangled Banner Ironically was the melody Key assigned to accompany the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was a popular English drinking song called “To Anacreon in Heaven.” Written around 1775 by John Stafford Smith, the song honored the ancient Greek poet Anacreon, a lover of wine.
NEVER LET THE FLAG HIT THR GROUND! i was stationed at fort hood for 3 yrs, but i was also part of the 3rd corp detail that raised the ff hood base flag every morning for a cpl months. Ill tell you what...... it was a big fuckong deal to make sure the flag didnt hit the ground......
I was a Medic in the North Carolina Army National Guard from 1981 to 1987. Thanks for reacting to this. Now you know why Veterans do not want Old Glory on the Ground. This Battle was during the War of 1812 and not during the American Revolutionary war. There are 4 verses to the star Spangled Banner.
This video has nothing to do with anything. It's almost entirely false. In fact the only thing that is accurate in it is that Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner. The rest is wildly inaccurate and quite frankly impossible.
There's a better video explanation. This one is exaggerated for dramatic affect. Check out The Accurate Story Behind the Star Spangled Banner from Dudley Rutherford.
@@nickjreacts The video he's suggesting is more accurate but it's produced by a religious fundamentalist who supports the g-cide in azaG and slanders gay people. If you want to learn US history then find vids at the History channel.
12:20 "That's an incredible story" - you are right, IF you mean it is _beyond credibility._ If you read the description of the original video (channel Mona Rose) you will see they admit it is *NOT* historically accurate, and recommends that people should research the accurate story. As with so many other reactors, you have taken this *largely fictional* account as true, before doing the recommended research. This is not a history lesson, but a rabble-rousing sermon by a preacher named David C Gibbs jr (hence the 'Amens' in the background) who, shall we say, 'never lets the truth get in the way of a good story'. He tells a great tale, but very little of it actually happened: the only things he gets correct are Francis Scott Key's name and profession, that the British attacked a fort outside Baltimore (though he never actually gets the name right, nor even the war when it happened), and that a flag was flying the next morning. *Everything else is a product of Pastor Gibb's vivid imagination.* Setting aside the fact that Francis Scott Key did not 'pen a song', he wrote a poem (The Defence of Fort McHenry) which was later adapted and set to music; it didn't become the National Anthem until over a century later. For the record: 1. This occurred in 1814, almost 40 years after "the colonies" had declared independence from "the mother country". In 1812, it was the United States that declared war on Britain (not the other way round), with President Madison and the 'War Hawks' in Congress calculating to invade Canada while Britain was engaged in Europe, fighting the dictatorship of Napoleon, and also to recapture thousands of slaves who were escaping to freedom in Canada every year. It wasn't until after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 that Britain and Canada mounted a concerted counter-attack: during the intervening time, US forces had made TEN attempted invasions of Canada (including the burning of York, the capital of Upper Canada). The battle of Baltimore occurred three weeks after the White House had been burned down by escaped slaves who had joined the British forces to fight against their former enslavers. 2. As for calling the war "vicious" and "protracted", the combined number of US and British soldiers killed in action during two years of war was less than the British army lost *in a single day* at Waterloo (this doesn't include losses by Canadians and Native Americans). The death toll at Baltimore was only about one for every one thousand participants. 3. The narrator not once gets the name of the fort right (it's "McHenry" not "Henry"); 4. There were no "thousands of prisoners in cages" on board the ship, there was a single man (Dr William Beanes) who was billeted in an officer's cabin aboard the flagship. Key didn't go because he had been asked by the government, he went because he was a personal friend of Dr Beanes. It was Colonel John Skinner, the official exchange negotiator (not mentioned in this story), who arranged the release; Key was just along for the ride. Contrary to popular belief, warships of this period did not prisoner facilities; they also did not have "cargo holds" - what they had was food, water and ammunition - the last place you would want to put an enemy prisoner. 5. There was no "ultimatum" from the British Admiral: lowering the flag is not an indication of surrender, it is hoisting the enemy flag. And nobody would ever consider the entire country to have surrendered just because one provincial fort was over-run, when the seat of the US Government had been captured three weeks before. The attack on Fort McHenry was only a diversion from the main attack on Baltimore, which was being carried out by land forces on the adjacent peninsular. The attack on Baltimore itself was just one of a series of relatively small hit-and-run raids down the seaboard; the main strategic aim was to 'encourage' the US to engage in peace negotiations, not re-colonization. 6. After Dr Beanes was released, they were not held aboard the British ship, but went back to Key's own ship before the assault started, so all the supposed conversations with the (non-existent) prisoners still locked below are obviously fictional. However, it is true that Key was repeatedly asked whether the flag was still there: by Dr Beanes, who had poor eyesight....and the repeated questioning really annoyed him! 7. There were no "women and children" in the fort: it was a heavily-armed military installation with twenty-three heavy cannons, and over a thousand fighting men, both artillerymen and militia. Together with the infantry and militia at North Point and Hampstead Hill, the defending Americans troops outnumbered the attacking British by 5 to 1. 8. There were no "hundreds of ships" firing at the fort, but five 'bomb vessels', each armed with a single long-range mortar: these were the only ships able to get within range of the fort, so their combined firepower was only about a quarter that of the fort. It was not a "constant barrage of guns": a total of about 1500 rounds were fired which, over 25 hours, is an average of a single shot each minute. And the mortars were so inaccurate that many shots missed the fort entirely. 9. The firing did not start at sunset and continue through the night, it started at sunrise one day and continued for 25 hours until the following day, when the ships ran out of ammunition. 10. Key's ship was more than EIGHT MILES AWAY from the battle, from where he would not have had direct view of the fort, but could only see the bombarding rockets. Key did not visit the fort afterwards (indeed they didn't get back to Baltimore until two days after the battle) and so could not have witnessed any "bodies propping up the flagpole". The fort had 13-foot thick walls and had suffered very little damage and minimal casualties: out of over 1000 personnel, there were only 4 dead. *No-one died holding up the flag* : two artillerymen died when their cannon overturned, one carrying water to the perimeter and one died later from shrapnel. 11. *The flagpole was untouched. It was actually a 75-foot tall, repurposed ship's mast, weighing nearly two tons, so the idea of anybody being able to hold it up is pure fantasy.* The fixation on not letting the flag touch the ground actually dates from the Civil War, not 1812, and wasn't codified until 1923. 12. Whenever they talk about the "British admiral" they either use a picture of Nelson (who had been dead for 9 years at that time) or Captain Thomas Cochrane (who in 1814 had been retired from the navy for 6 years and gone into parliament). 13. But the absolute "icing on the cake" was putting the words of Emiliano Zapata, a 20th century Mexican revolutionary, into the mouth of George Washington. All this is freely accessible on the websites for both Fort McHenry and the Smithsonian, where the Garrison Flag is now displayed, as is the actual battle report from the fort's commander (Major Armistead). Why people choose to believe this fairy tale, I have no idea. This fiction detracts from the genuine sacrifice of the real patriots who lost their lives that day. Yet the narrator missed one truely miraculous moment during the bombardment. A British mortar actually landed on the powder magazine, but failed to explode: if it had done, the entire fort would have been destroyed.
I always take my hat off and respect those who defend what MANY seriously take for granted. I honestly have freedoms that some countries can only dream of. Those lives aren't in vain.
This video is a falsification of history and possibly the worst video on YT. If the men who produced this video had an ounce of integrity they'd remove it from the internet. Keep reading to see the 12 errors in the video. 1) It was the War of 1812, not the Revolutionary War - there were 15 states, not 13 colonies. 2) There was no ultimatum to to Baltimore, nor to the U.S., as this fellow describes it. 3) Key negotiated for the release of one man, Dr. Beanes. There was no brig full of U.S. prisoners. 4) It’s Fort McHenry, not “Henry.” The fort was named after James McHenry, a physician who was one of the foreign-born signers of the Constitution, who had assisted Generals Washington and Lafayette during the American Revolution, and who had served as Secretary of War to Presidents Washington and Adams. 5) Fort McHenry was a military institution, a fort defending Baltimore Harbor. It was not a refuge for women and children. 6) The nation would not have reverted to British rule had Fort McHenry fallen. 7) There were 50 ships, not hundreds. Most of them were rafts with guns on them. Baltimore Harbor is an arm of Chesapeake Bay, more than 150 miles from the ocean; Fort McHenry is not on the ocean, but across the harbor from the Orioles’ Camden Yards ballpark. 8) The battle started in daylight. Bombardment continued for 25 hours. 9) Bogus quote: George Washington never said “What sets the American Christian apart from all other people in this world is he will die on his feet before he will live on his knees.” Tough words. Spanish Civil War. Not George Washington. I particularly hate it when people make up stuff to put in the mouths of great men. Washington left his diaries and considerably more - we don’t have to make up inspiring stuff, and when we do, we get it wrong. 10) The battle was not over the flag; the British were trying to take Baltimore, one of America’s great ports. At this point, they rather needed to since the Baltimore militia had stunned and stopped the ground troops east of the city. There’s enough American bravery and pluck in this part of the story to merit no exaggerations. 11) To the best of our knowledge, the British did not specifically target the flag. 12) There were about 25 American casualties. Bodies of the dead were not used to hold up the flag pole - a 42 by 30 foot flag has to be on a well-anchored pole, not held up by a few dead bodies stacked around it. Source: Tim Panono's Blog Note: Several reactors have removed this video after being informed that it's a historical falsification noxiously infused with Christian fundamentalism. I ask NickJ to remove this video in the hope of breaking the chain so that no one else reacts to it.
There were only 4 deaths during the battle. Maybe casualties in your statement include wounded? Regardless there definitely was not a pile of bodies holding up the flag.
You should be aware that much of this story is fabricated and leaves out the one of the most patriotic things about the real story. If you read the description of the original video it actually states that she turned off comments to the video because the story is not accurate, that she just liked it, so she put the audio to some video she made.
