Old Glory, New Glory

摘要

In 1814, as a young nation embroiled in a war with Great Britain, the United States needed a symbol to rally around. It found one courtesy of a Washington lawyer named Francis Scott Key. Key boarded a British ship flying a truce flag in Baltimore's harbor to negotiate the release of a prisoner. When the enemy fleet around him began raining cannon-balls on Baltimore's Fort McHenry, Key was detained on the ship, unable to do anything but anxiously watch the perilous fight until the dawn of Sept. 14, 1814.