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This is a presentation I saw in 2003 on the 4th of July and want to share it with everyone.

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SO PROUDLY WE HAIL : 

SO PROUDLY WE HAIL THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Francis Scott Key : 

Francis Scott Key

National Anthem : 

National Anthem

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Francis Scott Key – Lawyer Baltimore, Maryland

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The Colonies were engaged in vicious conflict with the Mother Country, Britain.

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Because of this conflict – Prisoners on both sides

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The American Government initiated a move… …release of these prisoners.

They said: We want to send a man by the name of “Francis Scott Key”. He will come out and negotiate to see if we can make a mutual exchange… : 

They said: We want to send a man by the name of “Francis Scott Key”. He will come out and negotiate to see if we can make a mutual exchange…

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On the appointed day, in a rowboat, he went out to this boat and negotiated with the British….

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He said: “Men, I’ve got good news for you tonight, you’re free!”

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Francis Scott Key said: “What do you mean?” He said: “Well Mr. Key tonight we have laid an ultimatum upon the colonies. Your people will either capitulate and lay down the colors of that flag that you think so much of, or….. …Key said: “How are you going to do that?”

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Key said: “You can’t shell that fort!” He said: “That’s a large fort. He said: “It’s full of women and children.

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The Admiral said: “Do you see that flag way up there on the rampart?”

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…Francis Scott Key went down below and told the men what was about to happen. And they said, “How Many Ships?” And he said: “Hundreds!”

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He said: “Men, I’ll shout down to you what’s going on as we watch.”…….

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“The sounds were deafening.” He said, “There were so many guns, there were no reliefs.”

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…all he could hear, the men, the prisoners saying was, “Tell us where the flag is. What have they done with the flag?….

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One hour. Two hours, Three hours into the shelling. Every time the bomb would explode and it would be close to the flag…..

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“The thing that sets the American Christian apart from all other people in the world is he will die on his feet before he’ll live on his knees.” Francis Scott Key he remembered what George Washington had said:

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Francis Scott Key said what held that flagpole in place at that unusual angle…were patriots’ bodies…..

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“Oh say, can you see…by the dawn’s early light… what so proudly we hailed… at the twilights last gleaming…

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O’r the Land of the Free… And the Home of the Brave!

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SO PROUDLY WE HAIL THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA