(The Defense of Fort McHenry)
September 20, 1814
By Francis Scott Key

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Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through 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?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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Book Contents:

Introduction
Parts of the Flag
How to treat your flag	Care, What to do when it is worn out, How to show respect, Can I wear a flag, How to fold my flag
How to display your flag	Inside display, Against a wall, Outside my house, On a flagpole, Night display, Hanging above the street, Lobby of a building, On a car, How to carry a flag in a parade, What to do when the flag passes you
Special times to fly the flag	Special Dates, In times of Mourning, In times of Distress
The National Anthem	What is it, Who wrote it, What to do when it is being played
The Pledge of Allegiance
The Flags Colors
The Evolution of the American Flag	The Guilford Flag, Serapis Flag, Washington Flag, Grand Union Flag, Betsy Ross, Francis Hopkinson's Flag, Fifteen-Star, Fifteen-Stripe Flag, Mary Pickersgill's Flag, Battle of Bennington Flag, Twenty-Star Flag, The USA Flag during the civil war, Confederate Flags, Forty-eight-star Flag, Today's Flag