FReeper Canteen ~ The Star Spangled Banner ~ 14 September 2017

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[Kathy in Alaska]

~ Star Spangled Banner ~
Written by Francis Scott Key (1814)

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Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

The War of 1812 had been a particularly nasty conflict with the British. They had burned down the Capitol and the White House in Washington, and were set on taking the port of Baltimore, which was protected in part by Fort McHenry, just to the south.

On September 7th, 1814, during the build-up to the attack on Baltimore, two Americans, Colonel John Skinner and a lawyer and part-time poet by the name of Francis Scott Key, had gone out to one of the British ships. They had come to negotiate the release of Dr William Beanes, a friend of Key who had been seized following the attack on Washington. The British agreed, but all three had learned too much about the forthcoming attack on Baltimore and so were detained by the British on board the frigate Surprise until it was over.

The attack started on September 12th, 1814, and after an initial exchange of fire, the fleet withdrew to form an arc just outside the range of Fort McHenry's fire.

Skinner, Beanes and Key watched much of the bombardment from the British deck. The major attack started in heavy rain on the morning of September 13th. Just under three miles in the distance the three men caught glimpses of the star-shaped fort with its huge flag - 42ft long, with 8 red stripes, 7 white stripes and 15 white stars, and specially commissioned to be big enough that the British could not possibly fail to see it from a distance.

In the dark of the night of the 13th, the shelling suddenly stopped. Through the darkness they couldn't tell whether the British forces had been defeated, or the fort had fallen.

As the rain cleared, and the sun began to rise, Key peered through the lifting darkness anxious to see if the flag they had seen the night before was still flying. And so it was that he scribbled on the back of an envelope the first lines of a poem he called Defense of Fort M'Henry.

O, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming

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[luvie]

I guess you’re getting our warm weather after is leaves here. You’re welcome to it, but I hope it doesn’t get as hot there as it was here today....99. Blech!

[radu]

It won’t get nearly as hot here as it is down there. Mid to upper 80s is what they’re calling for. That’s not too bad unless the humidity is high.
Highs around 60 degrees were a bit much this week. Our corn is finished but there are fields of soybeans that were planted later that still need warm temps while their beans plump up in the pods.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Mac, for the Missing Man Setting as we remember those who have given their all that we may gather safe and secure.

[Songcraft]

Here is a very moving rendition of The Star Spangled Banner, performed by the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center on September 20, 2001, just 9 days after 9/11.  (It looks like everyone there stood up for this one.)

        The Star Spangled Banner

(Sorry if this version was already posted here.   I didn't see it.)

[luvie]

Well, then, I hope it stays warm long enough for those beans to become a good crop!

When is the corn harvested?

[radu]

It should stay warm long enough for the beans. They’ll be through growing soon and the plants will start dying.

Some farmers are already harvesting corn in our area but ours isn’t ready just yet. I look at the ears whenever I pull out or in the driveway and they’re still upright on the stalks. When they start drooping over, they’ll be ready to go.

[luvie]

I guess every field is different.

They were harvesting the corn around the 1st of October in MO last year. *ahhhh-CHOO*

[radu]

It depends on when they were planted. The guy who plants out fields has acreage all over the county and there are others who plant several fields. Can’t plant them all at once. :-) Now the early fields are being harvested and they just go with the flow in the same order to harvest.

I’m guessing ours will go around the end of the month and yeah, aaaaahhh-CHOO! Not exactly looking forward to that part! LOL
Also going to miss all those stalks acting as a buffer to the roar of trains going by. They do muffle the sound a lot and when the fields are bare it sounds like the trains are in the front yard when they’re going south to north.

[luvie]

I didn’t realize the trains came so close to y’all! I can hear them here late at night and they are about 3 miles away. I kind of like the sound when it’s sort of a long way off. Sort of like the old Hank Williams song talks about. “The midnight train is whining low....”

[radu]

Shoo, the tracks run less than a couple tenths of a mile from us ..... right along the opposite side of Hubby’s cousin’s farm next door. Sometimes they’re hauling heavy loads and we can feel the ground shake.

We can still feel the ground shake now but the corn does make a good buffer for the racket. We still hear them but they aren’t nearly as loud.

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Thursday morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

((HUGS))Good morning, LUV W. How's it going?

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Songcraft]

Hope you don't mind if I butt in to your conversation there, but that is one of my favorite songs, (and I also hope nobody minds if I post that song in a thread focusing mainly on our National Anthem).

Besides the versions on youtube done by Hank, there are many other singers' versions of that song on youtube as well.  (One version there is done by Elvis, and he said in that clip that he thought this is the saddest song he'd ever heard.)

Here's Hank:

       "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"

[luvie]

We’re all in the conversation here, and I love that song, too. Elvis’s version is beautiful.

Hank’s is just so raw and of course, original.

[SkyDancer]

Hai, Good Morning (((HUGS))) - things seem to be sorting themselves out - I’ve been bidding routes that were dropped. Usually I’ll bid the month but since those storms things went hectic.

[SkyDancer]

Frontier has three flights a day going there and I’ve flown there several times with a bizjet. I’m in Phoenix right now and heading up to Chicago then back to Denver (my base) then home for four days.

[MEG33]

God Bless Them

[MEG33]

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[MEG33]

Love This!! Thanks for posting, LUV