On this episode of “Somebody’s Gotta Do It,” Mike Rowe revisits the site of a childhood school trip and gains a new appreciation for the incredible story behind the national anthem of the United States of America.
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro’ 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 the home of the brave?
Fly your flag proudly today, and remember:
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov’d homes and the war’s desolation;Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust”And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!



Very interesting! Thanks Stella!
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Love Dave Stotts’ productions!!
Jack Lord’s ‘The Dawn’s Early Light’ is a fantastic history of that event… enthusiastically recommended!! All his books are so thoroughly researched and really well written.
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Sorry, meant to post this:
(love Mike Rowe too!
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