“The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t actually adopted as ... at – this flag had 15 stripes and 15 stars. O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s ...

Rather than address claims against the song, it would be my pleasure to look at what makes our national anthem so great.

The Star Spangled Banner is part of a poem about a battle ... bombs bursting in air” and still the American flag was visible over the “ramparts” of Fort McHenry, at great peril to those ...

It's a rousing tale: Ramparts gallantly streaming ... Long beloved by Americans, "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially became our National Anthem on March 3, 1931 when President Herbert Hoover ...