New Zealand Girl Reacts to Star Spangled Banner As You've Never Heard It 

Thank you for your service. Welcome home ❤

Thank you sir.

Thank you! Glad you're on our side.

Thank you.

Thank you for your service, my Brother.

God bless you! We will always fight for what we believe in and to help our allies! ❤️

This is so cool and inspiring, especially with everything going on in my home, the US, right now. Thank you and I hope your doing well!

Thank you for celebrating that day with us

We are proud to stand with and support our allies

Mikiness I am so glad a US Marine was there when you were drowning. From knowing the Marines, I think he would have sacrificed his life to save yours.

We wont let it be taken from us.. If they want to find another country they can go, their is plenty to choose from.. There is only one USA!

Well said! 🤘

Agreed.

Not all enemies come from distant lands

Always a fight to be free. I'm here fighting, on my feet. Home of the brave.

She even broke royal protocol just so she could show sympathy for us. It makes me tear up to think about.

It was tearful beautiful how Queen Elizabeth had shown strong support towards us during our sad time. I do remember how my young son had said that she was good and respectful person.

Elizabeth is a class act. The lesson for those in war-torn areas today (Israel/Palestine specifically, though it certainly applies in personal relationships, as well) is that even the most intransigent foes can overcome their animosities and learn to live with and respect one another.

She's a class act, she remembers when the USA saved her country.

The Queen is just another person. She is not wealthy for anything she has ever done or will do. Just by who she was born. The antithesis of what freedom and America stands for.

If the flag touches the ground, we must ceremonially burn it

If your flag touches the ground you can bring it to the boy scouts who do ceremonial retiring of the flag.

@@lucasboyd7616 just like your life

@@lucasboyd7616 I do read history so no thanks

@@lucasboyd7616 and also you accept the truth as well...😐

Their trying to rewrite history and disrespect those those who died. Their sacrifices gave them the opportunity to spread hate and unfair resentment. No country is perfect and USA is for all races ethnicity's and religion. People forget that.

This video is historically inaccurate anyways but it’s still cool

@@sigsauer_firearms 1000% Just a everyday regular perversion from a church

@@littlesofty01 because i study history and enjoy the REAL facts over fiction

@@sigsauer_firearms study history from who? The left? My Brother is a historian, Received his BA in History from Yale, so

AMEN AND GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I served this country for almost 15 years I am a Marine and Ex Special forces never would I have regretted serving this country I feet so thanked from everyone I meet for doing what I did.

Amin so do I

This is the best comment I have read all day. Thank you. I also feel 9'5" when I see the flag.

Amen God bless America.

Yet SJW's and BLM steps on it on rallies without impunity...sooo

@@tyroneloki5131 it’s their right whether u believe in their cause or not and if u can’t accept that then ur not truly an American ur would be fighting to suppress another because u don’t agree everything’s gotten twisted and the country is too far past the point of reversal

@@alexwelch7381 your right its their right...believe what you believe...what am saying is in other countries, its a criminal offence to burn/cut or even leave the flag on the ground...yet in the USA no such laws exist, considering how americans claim that they love their flag and what it stands for..(correct me if am wrong about the laws)

@@tyroneloki5131 there absolutely r laws against the flag but in a protest it’s different there’s actually many flag laws

Matt 1:21, He came down as a marine to protect those who could not protect themselves, Matt 4:18-19 As a general ready's His soldiers for battle. Mark 6:48-50, Navy seal a warrior water. Matt 27:32-37 On the cross He became Air force defeated all principalities of the air. THANK YOU for your service, SOLDIER

I’m right with you! A full heart and misty eyes,to be honest my misty eyes are waterfalls! God Bless American!

Thank you for your service.

Thank you for your service !

Thank you for your service

yes

Thank you for your service!

🇺🇸 Much Respect! My brother(US Marine)& my brother in law (US Army)both~just sent on deployment overseas on May 1st for the next(1.5yrs) 18 months. Prayers & Peace for ALLLLLL! Thank you for your service sir! God Bless America

Thank you for your service

Thank you for your service!

Parents and adults need to start getting involved in the education board, and state elections, it's time to stop sitting back and start getting our hands involved.

We have to rise up like the pos ANTIFA and BLM and take back our country. Four years of this 💩Administration is going to destroy our Republic.

I love my country. I'm proud of us for having essentially invented modern democracy and free market capitalism. We are the great libertarian experiment that succeeded, and we proved the incredible merits of freedom. However, this story is a fabrication. HERE ARE THE FACTS: First of all, the narrator (David C. Gibbs Jr., a preacher) has this set in the Revolutionary War with “the Colonies” against “the Mother Country, Britain”. The Revolutionary War ended in 1783. This battle took place during the War of 1812 (it started in 1812) in September of 1814, 31 years after the Revolutionary War ended, and 26 years after the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788. This war was the United States against the invading British Army and Navel forces, BUT it was WE who had declared war on Great Britain. Francis Scott Key was born three years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and would have only been four years old at the end of the Revolution. Fort McHenry wasn’t even built until 1798 and finished in 1800 (17 years after the Revolutionary War had ended). Francis Scott Key had sailed out to the British fleet anchored in the Chesapeake Bay in a truce vessel (not in a ‘row boat’) NOT to negotiate the exchange of many prisoners of war, but, rather (with fellow lawyer John S. Skinner) to get the release of ONE INDIVIDUAL, the elderly Dr. William Beanes (who was his friend), a civilian non-combatant who was taken prisoner from Marlboro when the British departed Washington D.C. after they burned the White House, the Capitol and other government buildings. Aboard the British flagship HMS Tonnant they successfully pled their case with Vice Admiral George Cochrane and Major General Robert Ross. After they got the release of Beanes they were escorted back to their own American truce ship but not allowed to depart. During the 25 hour bombardment of Fort McHenry (which started early in the morning, NOT the evening of the first day, September 13) Key’s ship was tethered to a British vessel almost about 8 miles back from the battle and placed under guard to prevent Key and his companions from revealing the British attack plans to Baltimore’s defenders. It was from their own truce ship that Key witnessed the battle, not from a British ship. The British bombardment ships then closed in on Fort McHenry on the Patapsco River. There were NOT hundreds of British ships involved in the assault. There were 16 warships, and about 35 smaller vessels in the bay. The British ships present were just a small fraction of the ‘entire British fleet’. There were only 5 bomb ships and one rocket firing ship that actually did the the majority of the bombardment. There was no communication by Key with ‘prisoners’ in the hold of a British ship (there were no other prisoners and he wasn’t on a British ship during the battle). All of that is COMPLETELY MADE UP. The story of the “ultimatum to the ‘Colonists'” that the flag be taken down, etc. is false. The claim that Fort McHenry was “filled with Women and Children” and “predominately NOT a military fort” is ABSOLUTE NONSENSE and TOTALLY FALSE! (In an extended version of this story told by the same narrator he claims that the Key said the fort had NO armaments.) The truth is it was a key military fort crucial to the defense of Baltimore and had been recently fortified to withstand this kind of assault. It had over 1,000 troops under the command of Major George Armistead and was fortified with 60 cannon. The British were trying to capture Baltimore and the fort was in their way. The ‘Quote’ of George Washington is spurious. Washington NEVER said that. The quote comes from José Martia a Cuban freedom fighter n in the 1890s and was popularized by EMILIANO ZAPATA in Mexico in 1910. (it wasn’t talking about “American Christians”). The British fleet did not, nor could have, trained ‘their guns on the flag’ (even if they wanted to). At the two mile distance they were forced to shot from to avoid the cannon fire from the fort, their heavy mortars and congreve rockets were very inaccurate (at the end of their maximum range). (They had pulled their ships back after the first few hours when they received a lot of damage from the fort’s cannon fire.) Many of the 1500 bombs overshot or undershot the fort. The goal wasn’t to ‘take out the flag’, it was to capture of the fort so they could proceed to overtake Baltimore. There were also a major land assault that started the day before with 5000 British troops landing at North Point and marching toward Baltimore which were repelled. The British goal was not to conquer and reclaim the United States but to force it to a negotiated truce most favorable to Britain. The U.S. had declared war on Great Britain in 1812 and both sides had grievances with each other. The British had captured American sailors from ships and impressed then into service for the Royal Navy in it’s war with Napoleon in Europe. They also oppressed our free trade. In 1812 and 1813 we tried to invade and conquer Canada and claim it’s territory for the U.S.. The whole story of the flag being held up by solders who died ‘one after the other’ is TOTAL FICTION. OF THE 1,000 SOLDIERS DEFENDING THE FORT, ONLY FOUR WERE KILLED and 24 WOUNDED. The flagpole was not hit and listing at ‘a crazy angle’, and was not held in place by dead bodies piled up around it. The flagpole was a massive mast 90 feet high (the height of a nine story building). The smaller ‘storm flag’ that was flying during most of the battle (a severe thunder storm developed and lasted till the following morning) was 17 by 25 feet, made of wool and would have been drenched, heavy and probably not waving much. It was replaced in the morning by the oversized 30 ft x 42 ft garrison flag after the bombardment (and storm) had stopped. It could be seen by every ship on the river and the bay. That is the flag that Key saw flying though a spyglass from several miles away. The flag was NOT “completely nondescript, in shreds” (it wasn’t even flying during most of the battle). Inspired by what he witnessed Key started his draft of what would become The Star Spangled Banner on board his truce ship in the bay. Key’s ship was released when the British ships departed. Key did not go to Fort McHenry after “to see what had happened”. He arrived on land in Baltimore three days later, after the British left, and stayed at the Indian Queen Hotel where he completed the work on his poem/song. It was published the next day. At first it was called “Defense of Fort McHenry” and later changed to “The Star Spangled Banner”.

I agree with you 100% on that.Our children need to be submerged in the history and what it took to have the freedom and the kind of lives we have here..

@@johnrollex680 wow!..you pulled me in on your response..This would seem more realistic

And that is why the Japanese Admiral, commander of the Japanese fleet sending bombers to Hawaii and Pearl Harbor, said "I am afraid we have unleashed a whirlwind, and we will suffer."

Same here!! just like they said in the video “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees"

Trace your lineage back to the Founding of Jamestown? My paternal 13th great-grandparents were John & Rebecca Rolfe. Rebecca was the Christian name of Matoaka AKA Pocahontas

@@maxwellharris507 Did you also know that the story of Pocahontas is actually fucking sad and pretty bad? And that disney made a mockery of her and her people?

@@TKDragon75 Fully aware

@@maxwellharris507 My ancestor was Thomas Gray (an Ancient planter). Gray's Creek was named after him.

@@patteel Tobacco?

The government run schools, yes.

??????

No they didn’t. This isn’t even a historically accurate video to begin with

That's because this story is false.

In my school they teach it

Aye. My ancestor wrote that anthem and I'll be damned if I let foreign & domestic enemies insult it on my nations soil. They are lucky I'm not in a city whomper stomping them daily. I'm ashamed nobody else will.

This story is completely inaccurate, so this has nothing to do with that. Only four people died, none of them touching a flag, and the British never set those terms. Key wasn't on a British ship, and never relayed what was happening in the battle to prisoners.

@@willsofer3679 Killjoy. Just go with the flow. So much erroneously bad info and history is out there about America and this story makes people feel good about our country. It's no skin of your nose, so don't be a downer about something that is basically true. 🇺🇸

@@TheRapnep so many people are trying to divide us now. I imagine this person would tell their kids that they are not getting presents for Christmas because Santa is not real when in reality they are just cheep bastards.

@@Cerberus09 Yeah, and what's downright scary is they're succeeding. The younger generation is already brainwashed and that is not good for the future of this STILL GREAT country. God bless her, watch over her, and keep her forever safe. 🇺🇸

I found myself wiping some tears away too. God Bless those Patriots

Same I was smiling as waell

Shame nearly everything he said was false. The real story is excellent, this fabrication is just sad. The flag pole for instance was 3 ft in diameter and 80ft tall with a 30 ft flag on top of it... no human can hold it up and no the flag pole nor the flag never fell down. 4 people died and there were only 30 or so warships not hundreds. Francis Scott Key was not on the ship where the prisoners were and he was only there to get ONE prisoner, not a multitude of them. All the conversations in video were 100% fabricated for instance.

@@w8stral Exactly. There is a video that corrects those historical inaccuracies.

@@w8stral well at least I can still feel good about America for once

The flag that was flying the night of that barrage is now in the Smithsonian. It is beat up, with holes, but it has been carefully supported by fabric on the backside so you can still see the shape of the flag. It stabilized it so that it could be mounted, to be seen by anyone who wants to - that it really was shot to hell, picked up there and brought back to the flag pole, by patriots. Freedom - isn't free.

The same. This song hits the heart of only true Americans who know there was a big price paid for our freedoms. God help us all.

@@museluvr The price is still being paid, and will have to continue to be paid as long as we have it. That's why I pay for our military.

The narration is powerful and every American should listen to this version. Maybe they can have more respect and honor those men protecting Old Glory.

@Jack Black It was closed due to covid, but it's partially re-opened to the public. The gift shop and exhibit center are closed, but he fort itself is open.

Its a crap video because so much of it is wrong.......patriotism should be reserved for things that are true.

@@jacklewis5452 What part of it was false? I'd agree it was exaggerated a little , like no they didn't direct fire a flag pole that isn't going to happen, you'd open yourself up for all sorts of retaliation w/ no defense. However it is a FACT the original Old Glory was flying in Fort Henry on that day, and it was shelled through the night at which point the flag was still flying, and surrounded by patriot bodies.

Here are just a few things that were not true in that presentation. "Key was not imprisoned on a British warship when he penned his verses. In his capacity as a Washington, D.C., lawyer, Key had been dispatched by President James Madison on a mission to Baltimore to negotiate for the release of Dr. William Beanes, a prominent surgeon captured at the Battle of Bladensburg. Accompanied by John Stuart Skinner, a fellow lawyer working for the State Department, Key set sail on an American sloop in Baltimore Harbor, and on September 7 the pair boarded the British ship Tonnant, where they dined and secured the prisoner’s release under one condition-they could not go ashore until after the British attacked Baltimore. Accompanied by British guards on September 10, Key returned to the American sloop from which he witnessed the bombardment behind the 50-ship British fleet. 3. The flag Key “hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming” did not fly “through the perilous fight.” In addition to a thunderstorm of bombs, a torrent of rain fell on Fort McHenry throughout the night of the Battle of Baltimore. The fort’s 30-by-42-foot garrison flag was so massive that it required 11 men to hoist when dry, and if waterlogged, the woolen banner could have weighed upwards of 500 pounds and snapped the flagpole. So as the rain poured down, a smaller storm flag that measured 17-by-25 feet flew in its place. “In the morning they most likely took down the rain-soaked storm flag and hoisted the bigger one,” Leepson says, “and that’s the flag Key saw in the morning.” www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-star-spangled-banner

@@jacklewis5452 it has false information but the overall picture is true

@@vorlon1 no where in the video was it stated that key was a prisoner as you mention in your first paragraph. As of the the rest of the content of your first two paragraphs that’s just additional information. It doesn’t in any way really change the story presented in the video. For your last two paragraphs you’re contradicting yourself. You said the flag did not fly through the perilous fight because it was raining so they had to take down the flag. Yet in your next paragraph you state a smaller flag was put up, so clearly there was a flag up anyways. Lastly, in your last paragraph you state “most likely” the smaller flag was replaced with a bigger flag in the morning. So are you assuming this or is this a fact? Regardless it wouldn’t matter because it doesn’t change the fact that a flag was up. Lastly you didn’t really clearly state what wrong information was stated in the video all you really did was add additional info such as dates, the fact that key went with an additional person, that they had dinner, that it was raining, etc...

To bad it does not exist. I say that as a 21 year combat vet. You fers are on your own. I am done.

@@daniellooney8878 despite your sentiments...it still does, and its progressing.

@@tyroneloki5131 Doubt it. I consented too the killing of 10K people. Could not stop the death of 1/4 of every single American, brit, Frenchie etc. Only to have my kids STOLEN a state away. Forbiden to see them for monthes on end when I have an above TS/SCI clearance. When my ex could not bathe them or change their diaper for YEARS! And yet, I am still on (happened in 04 in Cali). Stopped from seeing them for monthes on end? No. Fuck it I am done. It is a wonder I am not one of the 22. Umm lets see 22 vets commit suicide a day vs 19 questionable shooting a year. F it lets burn down every major city. So yeah I am done. I have nothing more to give. 1/2 of the America can go to hell. Those that support or encourage the rioters. I wash my hands.

@@daniellooney8878 well thats life, the only certain thing in life is change....so which america you want to go back to? 1812(when this happened)? when slavery and bigotry was acceptable? which era is the "america" you want. and burn down every major city? you okay ma dude? get help, your thought are not sound.

@@tyroneloki5131 I want the America where shit bags dont openly hate it while being a citizen. Where we all get our rights back where they have been wrongfully taken.

Thank you for service sir if one thing I'm seeing in today america is lots division but if we want to truly heal as one we need to become one as in human race you know we all

@@jackjacobson3893 thank you sir hope all is well with you

@@jackjacobson3893 So well said. I hate how today its always "race vs race" or "red vs blue" or some other dividing thing people use to split us Americans apart. We need to be united as a country to be the best we can be for everyone.

Thank you for your service!

Thank you for your srvice.

Thank you for your service!

Matt 1:21, He came down as a marine to protect those who could not protect themselves, Mat, 4:18-19, As a general He hand picked His soldiers and readied them for battle. Mark 6:48-50 A navy seal a warrior on the water. Matt 27:32-37 On the cross He was air force defeating the principalities of the air. Thank you for your service, we will meet in heaven.

He hung on a cross to give us the Star spangled banner, Neither shall be defeated.

Its about the people not he clowns in Government! Once the sheep come to that understanding, America will change for the better! If not Good Lord have mercy on our souls!

It's funny most people think the civil war was about slavery but it was mostly about anti federal government and let states do it their own thing but they lost so history was skewed to the union's side.

@@Mr.Potato420 it's not that most people think that, it's that it is what is taught in schools, written in books and online, and people are told they are racist for even wondering about the true reasons behind the Civil War.

@@Mr.Potato420 the Civil War, like most others, was about money. The Federal government couldn't allow the south to secede. The Confederacy already had buyers from Europe for their raw materials. The Northern industrial complex needed those things to survive. Lincoln needed to force the country together to appease his base. Slavery was a good 'moral' reason fed to the masses by the victors to justify their actions.

Our Country was founded by ppl that knew about oppressive governments. Took a little more than 200 years to become the same.

I haven't met anybody who "hate" our national anthem. You mean the liberals who are brainwashed? They don't mean crap to the majority of Americans. Our anthem is beautiful and will never be changed.

@@candysmith8724 People need to stop blaming political ideals for our differences. I'm a moderate liberal and I don't blame the Republicans for everything that goes wrong.

@@paulacornelison243 I've never met anyone who wants it replaced. If you're talking about the racist lines in the original Key poem, they don't appear in the anthem, and I've never heard any significant call for it to be replaced by any public figure. People have noted it's problematic, but that's it, so far as I know.

@@willsofer3679 I've read the poem and got a kick out of the anti-British lines. Years ago I read a news article about our Anthem. Some people wanted it replaced with GOD BLESS AMERICA. Quite a few other Patriotic songs were suggested. Apparently, the complaints about the Anthem are not very loud anymore.

It's a difficult song to sing because it was not meant to be sung. Key wrote a poem to commemorate a battle. The battle was a turning point in the way GB viewed us and the costs it took to get that respect.

He hung on a cross to give us The Star spangled banner Neither shall be defeated.

Same. I never cry. Not around ppl anyway, except for 2 things (excluding my dogs and family dying), this National Anthem, and...mfing PARADES! FRIGGIN PARADES! Why parades? I. Don't. Know.

It is not so much that they are not taught, but that they are not properly nurtured. It is one thing to teach, but it is much suffrage to instill values, virtues, and principals which are the constants to "Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"

Yeah and while they were fighting for their freedom they were still on the slaves so yeah the accomplished a lot like murdering almost all the native Americans taking land from Mexico and enslaving black people for 300 years where 6 million black people died during slavery. So yeah going to be proud of this song but I'm not going to be proud of it because it doesn't represent me or my people especially since it was made when we were still slaves

@@antoinerideaux-porche6036 "Yes, it's true the evil of slavery existed in America at the time of the American founding. Slavery was brought to America by the British in the 1600's and was brought to America in 1492 by Spain. Blacks also sold other blacks into slavery. Slavery was the norm throughout the world at that time. But America quickly abolished slavery in the Northern states soon after the American Revolution. We then had a Civil War to force the total abolition of slavery in the South. 650,000, mostly white people, died in the Civil War (out of a population of 30 million). Adjusted for population growth, this would be like 9 MILLION Americans dying in a war today." Let that sink in. America is not the great Satan you seem to think it is. Before you grow more hateful, do some research and you'll find we aren't so bad after all and really do try to right our wrongs the best we can. PEACE & BLESSINGS +

@@antoinerideaux-porche6036 I'm sick of these idiotic comnents. They couldn't fight a war amongst each other AND a war against the British, but our Founders ensured foundation was laid to abolish it in our founding documents. Over 600,000 lives were lost to free slaves and the balance sheet at the end of the war read $0 - the Guilded Age didn't start until slavery was abolished (in other words, slavery held us back). There's no American today that would argue that ending slavery was an unworthy cause and the fact we did end it is part of our history that I'm very proud of.

It's the War of 1812. The bombardment of Fort McHenry was in September 1814.

Just old men 🤣

@@dpro2944 🤣🤣🤣🤣 nope. Not for them either. Glad you did absolutely no research.

I noticed that during past Olympic Ceremonies- The American Flag does NOT dip! Ever! It is never to touch the ground! It is an honor to be an American and all that that entails!

IIRC, in the Olympics after WW2, the American flag carrier refused to lower the flag for the royal family. He said this flag bows to no one or something like that.

Not only this but also because of the men and women who've gave all because they believed in what that beautiful flag represents.

Never bow to no one.

This is historically a little wrong. It is the war of 1812 not revolutionary war. And its fort McHenry.

Yeah they're in the Olympics I want to say '80s or somewhere in there other nations would dip their flag to the host countries leadership whoever that was but Americans we never did ours always stood up

@@bobhealy3519 More than a little wrong. Almost the entire story told here is fabricated, and just plain made up. Here's a video describing some of the many inaccuracies/historical revisionisms: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SroDbMDug3o.html

The kneelers should Stand Up but also know that Americans have and will continue to bleed for that flag giving you the privledge to kneel.

A PATRIOT will die on their feet, [et those kneelers live on their knees.

I'm right next to you Sir. I'm proud to be an American.

Jeff, MATT 1:21 He came down from Heaven as a marine to fight for those who could not defend themselves, Luke 9:1-2 As a general calls his soldiers to arms. Mark 6:48-50 Navy seal who carries us out of harms way. Matt 27:32-37 On the cross He became Air force ace pilot defeated all our enemies. Thank you for your service SOLDIER.

Keep the Faith...We will not surrender to current administration.

75+ million of us Patriots. Never give up, never surrender. We will keep our Republic! Psalm 91

i shall not stop shedding tears until we get rid of those corrupt leaders in our country who want to destroy our Flag, show them the chair.

If this is what woke looks like , please let me sleep.

Only for now. The American mettle is being tested. Again. Was it Reagan who said, "They counted on America to be passive... They counted wrong" ? I'm just a Canuck, so I probably have that wrong, but whoever said it, it sounds good to me. Countries all around the world WITH AMERICA are gonna show these commie bastards what we're ALL made of.

The story narrated i this video is completely made up. I don't see how historical revisionism explains "why".

I do forfeit my life as well. To honor all those who have fallen to protect our freedoms. All those who have spilt their blood and their sweat and their tears for us. Those who risked limb and life. 🇺🇸

A nice and patriotic sentiment. However, no one died holding up the flag. This story is completely fabricated, and it's unfortunate that people are reacting to a video that's almost completely made-up historical revisionism.

@@willsofer3679 proof? How do you know?

@@willsofer3679 don't bother, already did. It's mostly true with some embellishments-maybe. There isn't a lot of accounts if what happened, and it was all word of mouth, so stories tend to get embellished. But, Key was on the ship to exchange POWs, he did watch from enemy ships while it happened. The flag did fly, but it wasn't the big flag, it was a smaller flag because it was raining that day. So, the possible embellishment of bodies holding up the flag might actually be true, as the flag that is known as the Star Spangled Banner is HUGE and would be very hard to hold up by hand. The smaller flag flew the whole time, they pulled out the bigger flag when the British where retreating. This is the flag Scott saw in the morning, as the song says. They did hold the fort, they didn't lower the flag, the British didn't win, Key really was watching and wrote what he saw the next morning. The only debated part was bodies holding it up and the British trying to directly shoot it down. They kinda were trying to do that because they were trying to get them to surrender, and the Americans were trying to keep it flying as it would have meant they surrendered. They didn't.

Even though this was created in 1812 we still could've been ruled by the British empire or become a monarchy.. Pfft

Still waiting for the 3rd

@@runrafarunthebestintheworld - We nearly lost that war.

@@cup_cuppy_cuppers5817 That is why this battle was so important. They wanted this MILITARY base, Fort McHenry, to fall, so they could take Baltimore. This and the Battle of New Orleans was what won the war. Take into consideration that we were not colonies. In 1914, when this Battle took place, not that many of the British shells actually hit that Fort. Fort McHenry fought back, and her cannons did hit British ships. Not that many Americans died during this battle.

@@kimkearney5419 - You mean 1814? Indeed and grateful we won the battle.

Same here from another Floridian American

Yep, granted that video embellished or just got plain wrong some "facts" it mentioned, though minor inaccuracies in the long run, it was still a pretty good explanation why we as Americans feel as we do about this nation and that flag.

@@xJamesLaughx embellishment is putting lightly... 90% of the story he told was false.

I would describe the sermon as fictional but loosely based on history. Here's a video describing all the things the sermon gets wrong: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SroDbMDug3o.html

"The entire nation?" What about the 2 million African slaves, the 1 million Asian slaves, and the unaccounted for Mexican slaves? 🤔

@@jacenjustice What about the fact that Briton started the slave colony, not the USA? Shove your BLM where the sun doesn't shine

The Thank you done by the Canadian is equally beautiful

Ragged Ol Flag, this, and the full Star Spangled Banner version are essentially permanently on my RU-vid because of how often I watch them. Along with 8th of November.

*glances at my name*

@@deadlybladesmith3093 Good number too 👍

She's a colonizer just like goerge Washington was.

@@stikupartist3698 Grow up. You'd be lucky to be 1/10 the man Mr. Washington was.

@@DC-nw3uc sure if killing native Americans and owning slaves is what made you a real man....

What is wrong with kneeling? Take your prejudice and stupidity elsewhere. You want those you cut off their legs to stand.

It’s part of the required lessons for all schooling, I think. People kneeling are just selfish scum trying to get favoritism by pretending to be victims due to our cultural eagerness to aide victims without investigating.

@@avigrett1484 kneeling is a phenomena where football players are kneeling instead of standing to protest racial injustice, but it's just wrong

No your a Patriot.

Yep especially those kneeling they don’t understand the context

This story in this video is almost a complete fabrication. Like, 90% of it is legitimately made up.

@@willsofer3679 may I ask how you know this is just made up crap just curious?

@@johnkelley7868 Because it's extremely well-documented. Including Francis Scott Key's own account. A few examples: One four people died at Fort McHenry (not "Fort Henry" as the narration says), and none of them died touching a flag. There were only a few British ships, not hundreds. Key himself wasn't on a British ship, but a few miles away (on land), and could not have possibly shouted to a bunch of prisoners what was happening in the battle. This comes from a radio show during the McCarthy era. The host was a personal friend of McCarthy, and was known to just make stuff up to suit his political purposes. This was part of his rhetoric to whip people up into a nationalistic frenzy during the "Red Scare". To support the purging of "suspected Communists" in Hollywood, business, and politics (of course, we now know this was a power play and a way to silence critics, and virtually none of those people were Communists).

@@willsofer3679 wow if what you say is fact you just bummed me out bro but on the other hand now that I think about it your probably right witch is why I had never heard this story just waiting for any kind of good news in this country I'm very concerned for it the story kinda just lifted me up made me feel proud this is such a downer but oh well gotta keep moving forward thanks for responding

Apparently you don't know your history. The alamo happened a lot more than 34 years later than that. And yes there were alot of volunteers from Tennessee but it wasn't " mostly" those from Tennessee who was in the Alamo.it was only a large group that came in with davy crockett, the rest was texan and mexican

@@robertogarrett6986 The Battle at Fort McHenry was during the war of 1812 not the American Revolution. It was fought in September of 1814. The 2nd time we beat the British. The Alamo fell to the Mexican army in 1836, 22 years later. And there were men from many states at the Alamo, 21 of them from my home state of Vermont.

Thank You for your Service !!

Thank you for your service, my Brother.

Same here brother Army 1998-02 medic

@@24dking That's awesome. I was a petroleum supply specialist. (Quartermaster)

@@Jimsac8 hooah

The problem with this story is its extremely inaccurate. It makes for a great story sure, but thats about it. It has very little historical accuracy. And before you think I'm just an sjw shitting on our country, I'm not. I'm an EXTREMELY patriotic conservative, real American to the point where I get choked up every time I hear the national anthem and see our flag flying. But I also have a huge love of history and sadly, this story is not accurate at all.

@@JonathanH1253 Nobody cares what political side your on, but yeah, it's inaccurate as all fuck and it's kind of an insult to the nation's history.

@@JonathanH1253 ill have to dig deeper into the actual story then. Thanks.

@@TKDragon75 that's exactly how I feel about it.

@@TKDragon75 It's NOT a political issue; the story is historically inaccurate. Key never visited the fort, never even set foot on shore in Baltimore. His grandson, however, was briefly held there as a prisoner of war while fighting for the Confederacy.

Just please be aware that this story is almost complete fabrication.