This is why we pledge our allegiance to the flag and not any person or place. Many of us even today will die for that flag. The original flag that flew over the fort can still be seen in Washington DC
Thank you for the respect you've shown young man. This is why...from that day until forever, Americans will not let our flag touch the ground. Each country can learn about the other.
The original Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the song that would become our national anthem, is among the most treasured artifacts in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
Sir thank you for watching this story of our flag & our fight for our country. Because it helps people understand why we as Americans hold our flag so dear to our hearts and why we never let it touch the ground. It is sad that our flag does not wave because of the wind that blows. It waves with the last breath of all those who fought and died for it and this country. God bless you.
People, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE educate yourself, It saddens me the amount of people that just blindly accept this story as fact. I keep getting venomous responses back after I state this story is mostly false, and they ask, well what's your account of the story then Mr. Smarty pants.. well, it's not my account of the story, it's from the actual military post battle report written by Lt. Colonel George Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry on Sept. 13/14th 1814, written in the hours after the battle and sent to Congress and our President. Give me one reason why I should spend the time to tell others how false this video is, post links, and do the work for them, that is easily attainable with very little effort and which they most likely won't even bother reading. This version continues to go viral though, and people continue to love it, because they'd prefer to be coddled by the knowledge that their ancestors were great pious men who could do no wrong, than learn the real history of the country they claim to love. You know what saddens me even more though, the coolest thing, that makes me really proud to be an American, about the actual events of this battle at Fort McHenry and the main reason Key wrote the poem, is completely overlooked and not even mentioned in this video, all due to a preacher wanting to church up the story for his sermon. That's not a shot at religion either, it's just a shot at a man, choosing personal gain to impress his flock, over telling a true story of inspiration about our country and what makes it great. Hope you all have a good day, I mean that too, please love one n other. ᴵᶠ ʸᵒᵘ ᵃʳᵉ ʳᵉᵃᵈⁱⁿᵍ ᵃ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ ᵇᵒᵒᵏ ᵃⁿᵈ ⁱᵗ ᵒⁿˡʸ ᵐᵃᵏᵉˢ ʸᵒᵘ ᶠᵉᵉˡ ʷᵃʳᵐ ⁿ ᶠᵘᶻᶻʸ ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᶜᵒᵘⁿᵗʳʸ'ˢ ᵖᵃˢᵗ, ᵗʰᵉⁿ ʸᵒᵘ ᵃʳᵉ ⁿᵒᵗ ʳᵉᵃᵈⁱⁿᵍ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ, ʸᵒᵘ ᵃʳᵉ ʳᵉᵃᵈⁱⁿᵍ ᵐʸᵗʰᵒˡᵒᵍʸ -Aυƚԋσɾ Uɳƙɳσɯɳ
❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸 Take a knee any time you want … but not during The Star Spangled Banner….. Good men died for that Flag 🇺🇸 …. And if you want to be a Citizen of this Country …. You Stand Up ! …. Hand over Your Heart ❤️ …. And pay RESPECTS TO THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO FOUGHT AND DIED FOR YOUR RIGHT TO BE FREE ! ! ……. THAT ! ….. IS WHAT IT IS ! …. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️
I enjoyed your great reaction. We love our flag. People making sure the Flag is up, and prisoners in a ship brig praying for the Flag to be up. That was all they worried about.
My Muslim friend stands at sporting events and sings this song...he knows. And what it means to him is, he finally made it here, and he can pray whenever he needs to. As opposed to the the 95% Muslim country he came from, that was not allowed to ....he told me that the United states was the best place in the world for him.
Between Sept. 13-14, 1814, the British fired over 1500 mortar shells, cannonballs, and the newly invented rockets at Fort McHenry. That's over 1 per minute for 24 hours! Those men and women stood in the line of fire and took the best the British had. Seeing the heroes willingness to die for their country, the British knew there was no way to win this fight.
1620 when the English came to Plymouth Rock until 1814 even though we declared our independence in 1776, Washington passed in 1779, we fought to be free. Almost two hundred years.
The context of this is the War of 1812. The British had zero interest in placing the US back under British rule. To the contrary, if the British and Canadian colonists had not won the war, Canada would not exist today. It was, in fact, the second of two failed invasions of Canada by the US. Some of the most motivated defenders of Canada in that war were blacks like Runchey's Company (composed of freed slaves), who feared that if the US took over Canada they would lose their freedom again. In the US even blacks who escaped to the north could be forced by courts to be returned to slave owners in the south.
I'm German born to German parents. After my American military husband brought me to America, I learned of this story. Every person that lives in these great and proud country kneels when our Anthem is played, don't deserve to live here. When you come to this country, learn to speak the language, learn about the American Anthem and honor the sacrifice our for-fathers made to keep America free. If you don't respect that, then go live some place else. You ought to feel privileged to be allowed to live here. When I came here, I didn't speak English. I am self taught. I still have a hard time with writing. Americans hand letters on their words that you don't hear. That's the hard part for me. In German you speak every letter. I had the hardest time with the word knife. Why write it with a k if you don't even pronounce it, like nife. I always pronounced the K. After a while I understood that you don't speak the K. It still makes no sense to me. In a restaurant I asked for a knife, but I spoke the K. The waitress had no clue what I wanted, till my husband translated the word for me. English writing is still the hardest thing for me. After learning about the American Anthem, I'm now a proud person to be allowed to live here. Thank you America for excepting me. May God always bless America. I honor the Flag and be proud to sing our Anthem.
As the daughter of a WW2 marine vet. I knew this history from childhood. And as he was commander of the VFW through the Nam war and Korean. I saw too many caskets draped over with the flag as well as my own families before they were buried. Freedom is not free. God bless 🇺🇸 America.
Actually the star spangled banner, Keys wrote it as a poem. Was not until yrs later it was turned into music. Our anthem which if you read the poem they took words out. But Yes this is why the USA do not let the flag touch the ground. The ones who died did not let it.
The words displayed on the video had a few errors, but you got the message. However, this is why we don't like people that kneel when the anthem is playing or being sung, and why, though it is legal, we strenuously object to people burning it on stepping on it.
Fun fact: First amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; This does not keep the Church out of government. It keeps government out of the Church. The government keeps the Church out of government by giving them tax exempt status.
Quick primer in liberty: the declaration of independence was a list of complaints against the crown by some colonies. It declared that all men were created equal, meaning some colonist or a king, both are equal. The constitution set up a government without a monarch, in its own words made of for and by the people. The amendments are a bill of rights and some changes voted in by large fractions of the people over time. The main takeaway is that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are god-given and in the case of America, the specific wording of the foundational documents uses words like the government is prohibited from infringing those rights. In other countries who copied the constitutional setup, they often instead use specific words claiming the government is the one granting the rights. Many Americans falsely believe this to be true here as well and it's always amusing to see their faces when shown the correct wording. We used to learn this in school but not so much anymore. So the difference is the American way and what the flag and this story represent was meant to be the willingness to sacrifice to preserve freedom. It gets abused by twisting the meaning of the words sometimes but there are other cleverly worded things that allow abuse of power to be wrestled from power or voted out. Ultimately, as the declaration states, it is the consent of the governed that holds government power up, not the threat of force. In that way, the specific wording that God grants rights that government may not infringe or abridge allows verbal wrangling to keep government in line with the consent of the governed, and the right to keep and bear arms is so the government knows it can't just waltz in and take anyone's rights. In theory. Finally, this story about the anthem demonstrates a metaphor that gets labeled as extremist but is truly only extreme in the sense that yes, some things are worth dying for or killing for, and freedom is definitely on the list. Dangerous freedom scares weaker people. The metaphor is the tree of liberty must from time to time be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots. Most people just say blood of tyrants but it takes both. You can see why some people might be uncomfortable with that euphemism. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 🤣
This is a LOT of typing for a simple comment of between 1-5 sentences. Please share your lengthy essays for your own videos. You will find more people interested in your comments. 🙂
@@davidellis1374 thats your opinion and you know what they say about opinions. You are more than welcome to not read any comment you choose but to say that person should have made a shorter post because it is too long to read says a lot about you. I didnt find the post to be too long and far from an essay.
Thanks for the reaction. It's always nice when someone learns a little more about how this country came to be and the sacrifices that have been made, even to this day. :)
Today Americans are misunderstood because Americans themselves are confused. We are used to comfort now. A word many nations would love to know and we take it for granted. Free. Americans had to fight to be Americans! The spirit of that is incredible to me as a grand daughter of an immigrant to this nation. Everyone who landed on the shore fought! And now we are spoiled by our freedom.
There are actually more humans enslaved and trafficked today than there were back then, but partly because of the increase in population making it just a higher number but a smaller percentage of the population. Also because things like what happened to Gaddafi in Libya led to new human trafficking trade opening up.
If i could define the core or original American culture in a very broad sense. Was the idea that we would fight you to the extreme: frozen river lets cross it on Christmas and attack you, we'll die before giving you the satisfaction of a easy win. And then we'd be immensely respectful towards those we fought. Theres some very, extremely sad exceptions to this, typically things like generations long feuds are alien to us because for us "wait so we already fought and slaughtered eachother? So why do we hate eachother now is there something new we're fighting over?"
I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Unto the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.🇺🇲
Thank you for this reaction video and this song always hits me knowing what people did to save our country and those then & now! I give my thanks always and loved you put yourself into their shoes on what it must have been like. Thank you.
thank you for learning the history of our Anthem. it means so much to us as Americans that others understand. Some people want to say its a warmongering song, it's not. it's a song about standing up for yourself. to defy something with everything you have because you know it's the right thing to do.
And it’s even more prevalent today. Today there are more enslaved people then ever in history (probably because the population is so large) there’s an estimated, a low estimate, of 45 million slaves today around the world. That include sex slaves, child slave labor, and so on. I believe India, China and North Korea have the highest numbers
Fort McHenry protected the city of Bdltimore and the sea approach to our new capital of Washington DC. Because the fort held out, the Brits could not land enough troops to occupy the capital, only raid and burn it. This happened September 14, 1812, a generation after gaining our independence. You can visit this fort today. It still stands. We remember hiw close we came to losing our independence that night. We remember the sacrifices it has taken to get & keep it.
I was young and dumb and would remove myself from the Pledge. My b*tcha$$ doesn't do that ever now. I even contemplate my clothing choices when an American Flag is on it and where it's placed. When you talked about the thoughts of slaves and how they lived. Sadly this still happens in the USA and all over the world today. We just call it Human Trafficking now. 😢 Much respect on your video!
Lets keep this 100: do you know why it said neither hireling nor slave? The reason is that Britain was promising freedom to slaves (and hireling ie mercenaries) who took up arms against the revolting american soldiers. Maybe you dont think that fact matters, maybe it doesnt, but i have never heard anyone give this line a fair academically honest treatment. So to put it another way, upon taking up arms against the american colonists and for the brittish, the slaves and mercs were OPS. This part of the song is after the war was won and saying "no ops can stop us" and then spells out who the ops were: the band (brittish), the paid mercs and the slaves whom they promised freedom if they just would help the brittish king put down the american REVOLUTION.
This wasn't the Revolutionary war. This was the war of 1812, when the United States declared war on Britain (not the other way around), with the aim of annexing Canada. No mercenaries were used in 1812 (though they had been during the revolution). This was British soldiers, Canadian settlers and escaped slaves fighting back against American aggression. The White House was burnt down by two companies of Colonial Marines, who chiefly comprised of escaped slaves who were fighting against their former masters: this is why Francis Scott Key singled out escaped slaves for retribution.
@@dominicbuckley8309 you're correct, and I retract. Thank you for correcting me because that was a hot take. Now, after reading your comment and then looking it up, my understanding is more nuanced. But is it true that the War of 1812 also arose out of British impressment of American sailors or was that misinformation? Would appreciate your insight.
@@ON3L0VEwalrus As with so much history, the lead up to the war was rather more complicated than just a single issue. Both the British and US governments held that all citizens were liable for service in time of war. It is known that over 20,000 British sailors (who had not become US citizens) were working in American ships at that time: it was British sailors working in foreign vessels who were the target, though some British-born Americans who could not prove their citizenship were also caught up. But the US Navy also used impressment at that time. USS Wasp, Hornet and Constitution are all known to have taken British and Irish seamen, either from stopping ships at sea or 'shanghaing' drunk sailors in port, while USS Virginia impressed 30 citizens of Baltimore, an act expressly forbidden by Maryland law. Matters came to a head with the 'Little Belt' affair in 1811, when USS President badly damaged the sloop HMS Little Belt, killing 11 of her crew. Intense diplomatic efforts prevented turning the incident into war, and both navies issued orders stopping impressment from any foreign vessel. So the issue had actually been resolved well before the 1812 war started, though the resentment obviously remained. It should be noted that the states most affected by Impressment (the maritime states of New England) actually voted *against* the war. It was the slave-owning states of the south and west, who had been losing thousands of slaves escaping to Canada each year, who voted in favor of war. The notion that the war of 1812 was caused by impressment is actually a "revision" (dating from an effort to foster national unity post Civil War), which is not supported by historical evidence.
🇺🇸 Thank You! We love our land, as I'm sure others love their country also. We have a law now that our flag is to "never touch the ground or be destroyed" by anyone. If a flag is retired it is to be folded & kept in a glass case for storage. Never burned or buried.
I have heard that allowing the flag to touch the ground was disrespectful, but never in my whole life have I ever heard that America has a law that states that you will be arrested and kept in jail for doing this. If anyone can give me an example I would appreciate it. 🙂
This like the speaker says is a Story based on Fact like a good movie, it is embellished to make the story, since there is no way to know what was ever said during the attack. There are many mistakes such as Fort McHenry not Fort Henry, going a board instead of ashore, hailed instead of held and Fight instead of flight to name a few that I can think of right now. the bombardment went fore between 23 to 25 hours depending on the source. Doing minor damage ( I guess the British only wanted to break their windows or they were just very bad at their jobs) to the fort. They had between 16 and 20 top of the line Ships 6 of them being bombardment ships and some support ships like troop carriers with them. It is reported that there were 1000 troops in the fort and unknown number of civilians listed and only one woman and 3 men died after all that shelling. ( I guess they were accidents since the British was not really trying to take out the fort???) What Key wrote was a poem about what he saw that night. The first verse was taken later and put to music and later picked between 2 songs from a U.S. navel vessel to be played at the 1896 Olympics by a Italian assistant director to be played for the medal ceremony's ( At that time we did not have an Anthem and the Director was looking for something to play) before it was ever selected by school kids in the U.S. back in the 1930's to become official. just some interesting facts that I read and observed.There are 2 things most have realized since that time though is 1 you don't disrespect our flag and 2 never, never mess with our boats. As bad things seem to happen to them soon after.
All I can say is at that time I believe that we had to find favor unlike now where we do not because of our choices. We revered God at that time where is now we do not. We are no longer a blessed Nation that is sad and unfortunate but tells you what time it is!
Slavery filled the earth through serfdom and trade, but the flag being lowered, meant the Americans on land, were surrendering and were returning back to slavery under king George. But they had a taste of freedom and were never going to be slaves to any monarch, ever again. Though, the Star Spangled Banner is uniquely the American anthem, its truths are universal, meaning that it is humanity's anthem and why those who are drawn to the truth of freedom at all cost, bravely lay down their lives for it, so that others could immigrate here and above all other nations, finally have freedom. And think of how freedom traveled around the world, because America was free and helping others to be free. Americans have many times, in many battles, held other nation's flags high, so their lands too can be free, by the sacrifices of the brave. 🇺🇸
Two words were wrong in the subtitles. It's not held, it's "what so proudly we hailed" and it's not flight, it's "perilous fight". Don't know why it says that here. But yeah, the failed siege of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812 when Britain came back for round 2. Surprisingly enough, there were only about 20-25 American casualties. Britain was largely inaccurate because they had to stay far from shore due to the American fort firing back the whole time. This is why we never let the flag touch the ground or kneel to this day.
George Washington's quote is a quote I live by.. always say if you don't like the United States get the hell out of here and go to some other place that fits your needs a little better.. I said what I said and I don't apologize to anybody ever!!!
This is why we hate it when they kneel during games or stomp or catch fire to the flag. Anyone that does that has zero knowledge of the sacrifice made for our freedom from the british.
i believe the story used the entire conflict with Britain, which was several battles, lasted years & thousands died. The Smithsonian has original historical documents that attest to hundreds of prisoners held on ships by both sides. Interesting side note - it was actually the real American "hillbillies" (N. Carolina Ozarks, ECT) that turned the war in our favor. The British ALMOST won.
@@CjJohns1776 American prisoners were being kept in prison hulks of the coast of Britain then from 1813 - 1815 6.500 American prisoners were held at Dartmoor prison in south west England
Because this account of the battle of Fort McHenry is exaggerated in many places. The general idea and plot is accurate, but it wasn't on as big a scale as this video implies. The spirit of it is very true though.
THE WORLD DOESNT REALIZE THAT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED SO THAT WE COULD WORSHIP GOD! GOD ALMIGHTY PROTECTS AMERICA AND WE ARE FIERCELY PROTECTIVE OF OUR SIGN OF FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE TO WORSHIP FREELY!
The story isn't true. Theirs no military history in Britian claiming any those stories. All Military battles was documented in the UK. Britian would not attack a town with women and children with a navel bombardment. If the story said boots on the ground it would be more believable as any British commander would had ordered if they knew large women and children was there. A navel bombardment was only last resort and they only fire at military fort not towns. The lawyer stated it wasn't a military fort. Then the navy would had sent in troops not ordered a bombardment. The Royal navy was very proticular about the way it fought against its enemies even back in thoughs days.
This is why we pledge our allegiance to the flag and not any person or place. Many of us even today will die for that flag. The original flag that flew over the fort can still be seen in Washington DC
That's why the flag never touches the ground, in honor of them. God bless!
Thank you for the respect you've shown young man. This is why...from that day until forever, Americans will not let our flag touch the ground. Each country can learn about the other.
The original Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the song that would become our national anthem, is among the most treasured artifacts in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
For All our Freedoms 😭❤️
Sir thank you for watching this story of our flag & our fight for our country. Because it helps people understand why we as Americans hold our flag so dear to our hearts and why we never let it touch the ground. It is sad that our flag does not wave because of the wind that blows. It waves with the last breath of all those who fought and died for it and this country. God bless you.
People, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE educate yourself, It saddens me the amount of people that just blindly accept this story as fact.
I keep getting venomous responses back after I state this story is mostly false, and they ask, well what's your account of the story then Mr. Smarty pants.. well, it's not my account of the story, it's from the actual military post battle report written by Lt. Colonel George Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry on Sept. 13/14th 1814, written in the hours after the battle and sent to Congress and our President.
Give me one reason why I should spend the time to tell others how false this video is, post links, and do the work for them, that is easily attainable with very little effort and which they most likely won't even bother reading. This version continues to go viral though, and people continue to love it, because they'd prefer to be coddled by the knowledge that their ancestors were great pious men who could do no wrong, than learn the real history of the country they claim to love.
You know what saddens me even more though, the coolest thing, that makes me really proud to be an American, about the actual events of this battle at Fort McHenry and the main reason Key wrote the poem, is completely overlooked and not even mentioned in this video, all due to a preacher wanting to church up the story for his sermon. That's not a shot at religion either, it's just a shot at a man, choosing personal gain to impress his flock, over telling a true story of inspiration about our country and what makes it great. Hope you all have a good day, I mean that too, please love one n other.
ᴵᶠ ʸᵒᵘ ᵃʳᵉ ʳᵉᵃᵈⁱⁿᵍ ᵃ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ ᵇᵒᵒᵏ ᵃⁿᵈ ⁱᵗ ᵒⁿˡʸ ᵐᵃᵏᵉˢ ʸᵒᵘ ᶠᵉᵉˡ ʷᵃʳᵐ ⁿ ᶠᵘᶻᶻʸ ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᶜᵒᵘⁿᵗʳʸ'ˢ ᵖᵃˢᵗ, ᵗʰᵉⁿ ʸᵒᵘ ᵃʳᵉ ⁿᵒᵗ ʳᵉᵃᵈⁱⁿᵍ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ, ʸᵒᵘ ᵃʳᵉ ʳᵉᵃᵈⁱⁿᵍ ᵐʸᵗʰᵒˡᵒᵍʸ
-Aυƚԋσɾ Uɳƙɳσɯɳ
Now you know why our flag is so important to us. It represents the American spirit.
This is why you don't disrespect our flag........those that do - words fail me.
...or need "another/updated" one. 😡😢
Amen to Patriots of America 🇺🇸
The church I went to as a kid here in America also had the song in the hymnal.
❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸 Take a knee any time you want … but not during The Star Spangled Banner….. Good men died for that Flag 🇺🇸 …. And if you want to be a Citizen of this Country …. You Stand Up ! …. Hand over Your Heart ❤️ …. And pay RESPECTS TO THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO FOUGHT AND DIED FOR YOUR RIGHT TO BE FREE ! ! ……. THAT ! ….. IS WHAT IT IS ! …. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️
Oh please You can't tell people this country enslaved to lift up this Racist ass flag. FOH👍🏾
Amen❤️👏👏👏👏👏
I enjoyed your great reaction. We love our flag. People making sure the Flag is up, and prisoners in a ship brig praying for the Flag to be up. That was all they worried about.
My Muslim friend stands at sporting events and sings this song...he knows. And what it means to him is, he finally made it here, and he can pray whenever he needs to. As opposed to the the 95% Muslim country he came from, that was not allowed to ....he told me that the United states was the best place in the world for him.
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much love from an American.
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Merely academic means in theory but not in practice. They're technically free but the Brits planned to destroy the fort anyway.
The British wanted to sail passed the fort to get to Baltimore harbour to support the British soldiers
Along with the helpless women n children at that fort😭
Right hand over heart, proper civilian salute to anthem.
yep, I often catch myself trying to salute. 30+ years out of just the USMC Reserves!!!
Thank you for your service 🇺🇸❤🙏💙
I'm not sure if you notice and if it was purposeful, you took your right hand and crossed your chest for our anthem. That's tradition for us brother.
I'm a patriot. We are not perfect, but we are the best!
I never let my flag be disrespected or hit the ground ❤✊️🇺🇸
“You will pay for your Freedoms, over, and over again, with blood, and tears.”
Now you see what our flag stands for.
Between Sept. 13-14, 1814, the British fired over 1500 mortar shells, cannonballs, and the newly invented rockets at Fort McHenry. That's over 1 per minute for 24 hours! Those men and women stood in the line of fire and took the best the British had. Seeing the heroes willingness to die for their country, the British knew there was no way to win this fight.
Emotional and respectful reaction. ❤
This should be shown in every school and student should learn this
thanks,
I guess we in the usa have a pretty good national song.
I like it :)
We love our country ❤ we're dying from within😢
1620 when the English came to Plymouth Rock until 1814 even though we declared our independence in 1776, Washington passed in 1779, we fought to be free. Almost two hundred years.
The context of this is the War of 1812. The British had zero interest in placing the US back under British rule. To the contrary, if the British and Canadian colonists had not won the war, Canada would not exist today. It was, in fact, the second of two failed invasions of Canada by the US. Some of the most motivated defenders of Canada in that war were blacks like Runchey's Company (composed of freed slaves), who feared that if the US took over Canada they would lose their freedom again. In the US even blacks who escaped to the north could be forced by courts to be returned to slave owners in the south.
Old King George didn’t want to let go❤️
I'm German born to German parents. After my American military husband brought me to America, I learned of this story. Every person that lives in these great and proud country kneels when our Anthem is played, don't deserve to live here. When you come to this country, learn to speak the language, learn about the American Anthem and honor the sacrifice our for-fathers made to keep America free. If you don't respect that, then go live some place else. You ought to feel privileged to be allowed to live here. When I came here, I didn't speak English. I am self taught. I still have a hard time with writing. Americans hand letters on their words that you don't hear. That's the hard part for me. In German you speak every letter. I had the hardest time with the word knife. Why write it with a k if you don't even pronounce it, like nife. I always pronounced the K. After a while I understood that you don't speak the K. It still makes no sense to me. In a restaurant I asked for a knife, but I spoke the K. The waitress had no clue what I wanted, till my husband translated the word for me. English writing is still the hardest thing for me. After learning about the American Anthem, I'm now a proud person to be allowed to live here. Thank you America for excepting me. May God always bless America. I honor the Flag and be proud to sing our Anthem.
As the daughter of a WW2 marine vet. I knew this history from childhood. And as he was commander of the VFW through the Nam war and Korean. I saw too many caskets draped over with the flag as well as my own families before they were buried. Freedom is not free. God bless 🇺🇸 America.
The flag is meant to remind us to always oppose tyranny. With our life if we have to.
If people understand that an anthem isn't a song, it's like a prayer.
It's a song now. It was originally a poem
Actually the star spangled banner, Keys wrote it as a poem. Was not until yrs later it was turned into music. Our anthem which if you read the poem they took words out. But Yes this is why the USA do not let the flag touch the ground. The ones who died did not let it.
No the music wasn’t added years later Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to the music
The words displayed on the video had a few errors, but you got the message. However, this is why we don't like people that kneel when the anthem is playing or being sung, and why, though it is legal, we strenuously object to people burning it on stepping on it.
Fun fact:
First amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
This does not keep the Church out of government. It keeps government out of the Church.
The government keeps the Church out of government by giving them tax exempt status.
Beautiful reaction.❤️❤️❤️
Quick primer in liberty: the declaration of independence was a list of complaints against the crown by some colonies. It declared that all men were created equal, meaning some colonist or a king, both are equal. The constitution set up a government without a monarch, in its own words made of for and by the people. The amendments are a bill of rights and some changes voted in by large fractions of the people over time. The main takeaway is that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are god-given and in the case of America, the specific wording of the foundational documents uses words like the government is prohibited from infringing those rights. In other countries who copied the constitutional setup, they often instead use specific words claiming the government is the one granting the rights. Many Americans falsely believe this to be true here as well and it's always amusing to see their faces when shown the correct wording. We used to learn this in school but not so much anymore.
So the difference is the American way and what the flag and this story represent was meant to be the willingness to sacrifice to preserve freedom. It gets abused by twisting the meaning of the words sometimes but there are other cleverly worded things that allow abuse of power to be wrestled from power or voted out. Ultimately, as the declaration states, it is the consent of the governed that holds government power up, not the threat of force. In that way, the specific wording that God grants rights that government may not infringe or abridge allows verbal wrangling to keep government in line with the consent of the governed, and the right to keep and bear arms is so the government knows it can't just waltz in and take anyone's rights. In theory.
Finally, this story about the anthem demonstrates a metaphor that gets labeled as extremist but is truly only extreme in the sense that yes, some things are worth dying for or killing for, and freedom is definitely on the list. Dangerous freedom scares weaker people. The metaphor is the tree of liberty must from time to time be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots. Most people just say blood of tyrants but it takes both. You can see why some people might be uncomfortable with that euphemism.
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Thanks a lot for this mehn!
This is a LOT of typing for a simple comment of between 1-5 sentences. Please share your lengthy essays for your own videos. You will find more people interested in your comments. 🙂
@@davidellis1374 I'm shadow banned. Nobody would see it. The comment was an answer to questions that JayTube asked in the video.
@@davidellis1374 thats your opinion and you know what they say about opinions. You are more than welcome to not read any comment you choose but to say that person should have made a shorter post because it is too long to read says a lot about you. I didnt find the post to be too long and far from an essay.
" All you gotta do is Lower that Flag "
yeah good luck w that cus' we're not lowering s!@#.....
no matter who hears it, gets it
Thanks for the reaction. It's always nice when someone learns a little more about how this country came to be and the sacrifices that have been made, even to this day. :)
Today Americans are misunderstood because Americans themselves are confused. We are used to comfort now. A word many nations would love to know and we take it for granted. Free. Americans had to fight to be Americans! The spirit of that is incredible to me as a grand daughter of an immigrant to this nation. Everyone who landed on the shore fought! And now we are spoiled by our freedom.
Many are spoiled, the rest of us thank every veteran we're still free.
There are actually more humans enslaved and trafficked today than there were back then, but partly because of the increase in population making it just a higher number but a smaller percentage of the population. Also because things like what happened to Gaddafi in Libya led to new human trafficking trade opening up.
If i could define the core or original American culture in a very broad sense. Was the idea that we would fight you to the extreme: frozen river lets cross it on Christmas and attack you, we'll die before giving you the satisfaction of a easy win. And then we'd be immensely respectful towards those we fought. Theres some very, extremely sad exceptions to this, typically things like generations long feuds are alien to us because for us "wait so we already fought and slaughtered eachother? So why do we hate eachother now is there something new we're fighting over?"
Should watch Whitney Houston at Superbowl 91 singing it
I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Unto the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.🇺🇲
notice how democracy was not mentioned in the pledge!
Still to this day! God Bless the USA!
Great reaction man ✌️
Thank you for this reaction video and this song always hits me knowing what people did to save our country and those then & now! I give my thanks always and loved you put yourself into their shoes on what it must have been like. Thank you.
Great video man!
thank you for learning the history of our Anthem. it means so much to us as Americans that others understand. Some people want to say its a warmongering song, it's not. it's a song about standing up for yourself. to defy something with everything you have because you know it's the right thing to do.
All for our Freedoms from tyranny
Quite an emotional journey... yes? 🇺🇸
I love that u love our story! God bless you ❤🇺🇸🙏
4 white, 1 black and 1 woman died at that battle
The Flag is sacred symbol “ As we the people “
You are right how ppl can be treated this way (slavery or treated this way) but sadly slavery had been around for thousands of yrs.
Unfortunately there are still slaves. They call it human trafficking now.
And it’s even more prevalent today. Today there are more enslaved people then ever in history (probably because the population is so large) there’s an estimated, a low estimate, of 45 million slaves today around the world. That include sex slaves, child slave labor, and so on. I believe India, China and North Korea have the highest numbers
we don’t surrender that’s fs
I may be a 65 year old woman but I will definitely stand up for the flag and do my part to honor the Flag
Fort McHenry protected the city of Bdltimore and the sea approach to our new capital of Washington DC.
Because the fort held out, the Brits could not land enough troops to occupy the capital, only raid and burn it.
This happened September 14, 1812, a generation after gaining our independence.
You can visit this fort today. It still stands.
We remember hiw close we came to losing our independence that night. We remember the sacrifices it has taken to get & keep it.
that very flag still exists it is in a Protective case at the Smithsonian Institute and museum in Washington DC
I was young and dumb and would remove myself from the Pledge. My b*tcha$$ doesn't do that ever now. I even contemplate my clothing choices when an American Flag is on it and where it's placed.
When you talked about the thoughts of slaves and how they lived. Sadly this still happens in the USA and all over the world today. We just call it Human Trafficking now. 😢
Much respect on your video!
Lets keep this 100: do you know why it said neither hireling nor slave? The reason is that Britain was promising freedom to slaves (and hireling ie mercenaries) who took up arms against the revolting american soldiers. Maybe you dont think that fact matters, maybe it doesnt, but i have never heard anyone give this line a fair academically honest treatment. So to put it another way, upon taking up arms against the american colonists and for the brittish, the slaves and mercs were OPS. This part of the song is after the war was won and saying "no ops can stop us" and then spells out who the ops were: the band (brittish), the paid mercs and the slaves whom they promised freedom if they just would help the brittish king put down the american REVOLUTION.
This wasn't the Revolutionary war. This was the war of 1812, when the United States declared war on Britain (not the other way around), with the aim of annexing Canada. No mercenaries were used in 1812 (though they had been during the revolution). This was British soldiers, Canadian settlers and escaped slaves fighting back against American aggression. The White House was burnt down by two companies of Colonial Marines, who chiefly comprised of escaped slaves who were fighting against their former masters: this is why Francis Scott Key singled out escaped slaves for retribution.
@@dominicbuckley8309 you're correct, and I retract. Thank you for correcting me because that was a hot take. Now, after reading your comment and then looking it up, my understanding is more nuanced. But is it true that the War of 1812 also arose out of British impressment of American sailors or was that misinformation? Would appreciate your insight.
@@ON3L0VEwalrus As with so much history, the lead up to the war was rather more complicated than just a single issue. Both the British and US governments held that all citizens were liable for service in time of war. It is known that over 20,000 British sailors (who had not become US citizens) were working in American ships at that time: it was British sailors working in foreign vessels who were the target, though some British-born Americans who could not prove their citizenship were also caught up.
But the US Navy also used impressment at that time. USS Wasp, Hornet and Constitution are all known to have taken British and Irish seamen, either from stopping ships at sea or 'shanghaing' drunk sailors in port, while USS Virginia impressed 30 citizens of Baltimore, an act expressly forbidden by Maryland law. Matters came to a head with the 'Little Belt' affair in 1811, when USS President badly damaged the sloop HMS Little Belt, killing 11 of her crew. Intense diplomatic efforts prevented turning the incident into war, and both navies issued orders stopping impressment from any foreign vessel. So the issue had actually been resolved well before the 1812 war started, though the resentment obviously remained.
It should be noted that the states most affected by Impressment (the maritime states of New England) actually voted *against* the war. It was the slave-owning states of the south and west, who had been losing thousands of slaves escaping to Canada each year, who voted in favor of war. The notion that the war of 1812 was caused by impressment is actually a "revision" (dating from an effort to foster national unity post Civil War), which is not supported by historical evidence.
Too bad you didn’t play the verse at the very end … still, great reaction - thank you! 🥰🇺🇸
Thank you for this video
🇺🇸 Thank You! We love our land, as I'm sure others love their country also. We have a law now that our flag is to "never touch the ground or be destroyed" by anyone. If a flag is retired it is to be folded & kept in a glass case for storage. Never burned or buried.
I have heard that allowing the flag to touch the ground was disrespectful, but never in my whole life have I ever heard that America has a law that states that you will be arrested and kept in jail for doing this. If anyone can give me an example I would appreciate it. 🙂
This like the speaker says is a Story based on Fact like a good movie, it is embellished to make the story, since there is no way to know what was ever said during the attack.
There are many mistakes such as Fort McHenry not Fort Henry, going a board instead of ashore, hailed instead of held and Fight instead of flight to name a few that I can think of right now. the bombardment went fore between 23 to 25 hours depending on the source. Doing minor damage ( I guess the British only wanted to break their windows or they were just very bad at their jobs) to the fort. They had between 16 and 20 top of the line Ships 6 of them being bombardment ships and some support ships like troop carriers with them. It is reported that there were 1000 troops in the fort and unknown number of civilians listed and only one woman and 3 men died after all that shelling. ( I guess they were accidents since the British was not really trying to take out the fort???) What Key wrote was a poem about what he saw that night. The first verse was taken later and put to music and later picked between 2 songs from a U.S. navel vessel to be played at the 1896 Olympics by a Italian assistant director to be played for the medal ceremony's ( At that time we did not have an Anthem and the Director was looking for something to play) before it was ever selected by school kids in the U.S. back in the 1930's to become official. just some interesting facts that I read and observed.There are 2 things most have realized since that time though is 1 you don't disrespect our flag and 2 never, never mess with our boats. As bad things seem to happen to them soon after.
All I can say is at that time I believe that we had to find favor unlike now where we do not because of our choices. We revered God at that time where is now we do not. We are no longer a blessed Nation that is sad and unfortunate but tells you what time it is!
In this situation academic means fruitless
Just finished and listened!
This is why the American flag must never touch the ground.
Slavery filled the earth through serfdom and trade, but the flag being lowered, meant the Americans on land, were surrendering and were returning back to slavery under king George. But they had a taste of freedom and were never going to be slaves to any monarch, ever again.
Though, the Star Spangled Banner is uniquely the American anthem, its truths are universal, meaning that it is humanity's anthem and why those who are drawn to the truth of freedom at all cost, bravely lay down their lives for it, so that others could immigrate here and above all other nations, finally have freedom. And think of how freedom traveled around the world, because America was free and helping others to be free. Americans have many times, in many battles, held other nation's flags high, so their lands too can be free, by the sacrifices of the brave. 🇺🇸
Liked and subscribed. True Christians aren't afraid to die for what we believe in. True Freedom comes through Jesus Christ 🙏
You ask "how is it possible" though God all things are possible.
tune was british drinking song
Two words were wrong in the subtitles. It's not held, it's "what so proudly we hailed" and it's not flight, it's "perilous fight". Don't know why it says that here. But yeah, the failed siege of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812 when Britain came back for round 2. Surprisingly enough, there were only about 20-25 American casualties. Britain was largely inaccurate because they had to stay far from shore due to the American fort firing back the whole time. This is why we never let the flag touch the ground or kneel to this day.
that flag never touches the ground. im one that makes sure of that
If something is only academic, it means it has no practical meaning or effect.
Never ever kneel Land of the free and home of the brave ❤America 🇺🇸 ❤
Academic means already known. It doesn't be researched any further.
George Washington's quote is a quote I live by.. always say if you don't like the United States get the hell out of here and go to some other place that fits your needs a little better.. I said what I said and I don't apologize to anybody ever!!!
-George Washington's- Emiliano Zapata's quote is the quote you live by.
The narrator is Ronald Reagan, US president from 1981-1989. One of the greatest presidents and greatest men we've even had.
Afraid not. It is a recording of a sermon by an evangelical pastor named David C Gibb jr (hence the 'Amens' you can hear in the background).
Do you live in the States now?
Freedom isn't free.
And now you know why we get so angry when someone takes a knee to our national anthem!!!!!!
love you little brother Patriots are worldwide
This is why we hate it when they kneel during games or stomp or catch fire to the flag.
Anyone that does that has zero knowledge of the sacrifice made for our freedom from the british.
Why does the Fort McHenry website states only four people were killed during the attack and Francis Scott Key was on his own ship
i believe the story used the entire conflict with Britain, which was several battles, lasted years & thousands died. The Smithsonian has original historical documents that attest to hundreds of prisoners held on ships by both sides. Interesting side note - it was actually the real American "hillbillies" (N. Carolina Ozarks, ECT) that turned the war in our favor. The British ALMOST won.
@@CjJohns1776 American prisoners were being kept in prison hulks of the coast of Britain then from 1813 - 1815 6.500 American prisoners were held at Dartmoor prison in south west England
Because this account of the battle of Fort McHenry is exaggerated in many places. The general idea and plot is accurate, but it wasn't on as big a scale as this video implies.
The spirit of it is very true though.
React to THE GREEN BERET WHO WENT ON A 1 MAN RAMPAGE
yeah... its not just some clever lyrics.
Just a fyi POWs are still legally slaves so slavery has and will never end
THE WORLD DOESNT REALIZE THAT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED SO THAT WE COULD WORSHIP GOD! GOD ALMIGHTY PROTECTS AMERICA AND WE ARE FIERCELY PROTECTIVE OF OUR SIGN OF FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE TO WORSHIP FREELY!
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Americans still do not let a flag touch the ground.
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We aren't called God's country for nothing
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God made it possible .... the Triune God the Father , God the son (Jesus ) and God the Holy Spirit.... yes our Creator did itand those brave men
sorry but there is no historical record of george washington saying that.
The story isn't true. Theirs no military history in Britian claiming any those stories. All Military battles was documented in the UK. Britian would not attack a town with women and children with a navel bombardment. If the story said boots on the ground it would be more believable as any British commander would had ordered if they knew large women and children was there. A navel bombardment was only last resort and they only fire at military fort not towns. The lawyer stated it wasn't a military fort. Then the navy would had sent in troops not ordered a bombardment. The Royal navy was very proticular about the way it fought against its enemies even back in thoughs days.
I can send you the American flag if you want one. Let me know. God bless America