REACTING TO 'The Star Spangled Banner As You've Never Heard!
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
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Don't ever apologize for showing emotion when something touches your heart and soul. I am an American and I cry every time I hear this song. Those men and their sacrifice provides us with the very freedoms that we enjoy today.
Thank you for your thoughtful reaction.
I take so much pride to our beautiful Flag 🇺🇸 and so so proud to be an AMERICAN THANK YOU JESUS 🙏🇺🇸❤️🙏🇺🇸❤️
Never apologize for for showing emotions
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if we didn't cry over this, I would wonder why. Thank you...
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Our flag will never touch the ground in my presence! 🙏🇺🇸
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Amen
I am praying for your nation sir, I'm hearing crazy stuff on the news. Thank you so much for your comments at the end. It wasn't until a couple of years ago I thought everyone hated us. Good to hear we have some love out there. We screw up sometimes, but America is heart.
Indeed, America is.
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Another vid that demonstrates American resilience is called "Boatlift". It tells of the water rescue of the people in Manhattan on 9-11.
Great.
I should check it out.
Never apologize for emotions. They are the blessings we were given in order to communicate. And the tears that come from emotion are just another way of expressing emotion.
Don't be sorry sweetie, we Americans feel the same way.
This is why you do not let our flag touch the ground in respect of those that died that night but it is also symbolic of surrender.
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huge respect from Philadelphia in the USA you have a great heart and would be welcomed here!!
Now I hope people truly understand why
*WE THE PEOPLE* 🦅🇺🇸🦅 are so
🇺🇸PATRIOTIC🇺🇸 and we're absolutely appalled by what's going on in our Country right now?!?!
When you see certain people who are *BLESSED* enough to live here in the U.S.A. and PLAY SPORTS, but some players refuse to stand up for OUR 🇺🇸NATIONAL ANTHEM.... they're acting like spoiled entitled children & their actions are VERY DISRESPECTFUL to all of the *BRAVE* men & women who gave their lives & limbs for our FREEDOM!
It's also another reason why certain flags (that hateful *ANTI-AMERICAN* protesters like to use) shouldn't be flying in OUR GREAT NATION at all!
Freedom ❤❤❤❤🇺🇸
Our 🇺🇸Flag Represents Our Fallen Patriots & Servicemen & women .. This is why we get so upset when people Burn it, take a knee to it, or Disrespect it in anyway 😢 Even though they have a right to do so 😢 But I bet Our Fallen Patriots would be the first to Defend them & their Freedoms that we all take for Granted 😢
❤GOD Bless you all my Sister's & Brothers from other Mother's I ❤Love you all .. In ❤JESUS name i pray 🙏Amen. 😗💋😍😊🇺🇸🙏😇👍
Don’t ever be Sorry:)
You Are Loved
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Never apologize for being human and showing emotions! Proud to be an American! We love our Flag! We look at kneeling as a disgrace!
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God bless you sir. Respect and much love.
Late to the reaction but just wanted to say. Great Reaction. Americans need to hear this story the most. Ppl have forgotten great history. Just remember the negative and want to reflect on that because of the Media and Government pushing our division.
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The flag is merely a symbol of American freedom. The fight and the reason our forefathers created this country was because they did not want to bow and worship a king or queen, but only God/Jesus Christ/Holy Spirit. So the flag was simply a representation of their desire and determination to be free.
It is SO MUCH MORE than 'merely a symbol' or 'representation of freedom', IT IS OUR BANNER like the ISREAL flag with the star of David on it (a declaration of Davidic covenant w/God) YAHWEH NISSI-(one of the 32hebrew names for God) WHICH MEANS GOD IS MY BANNER,that is why in ancient wars each side sent out a rider who ran along their Frontline w their 'banner'to declare to the enemy WHO/WHAT they are fighting for..THE STARS (same reason US Generals have "stars on shoulder" and "stripes on arm")represent the 'gentiles' establishment of a NEW COVENANT, hence the motto"In God IS our Trust" and THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE "one nation UNDER GOD," ALSO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE PREAMBLE, BILL OF RIGHTS/CONSTITUTION WHERE ALL WRITTEN to establish a new covenant. That's why they are worded as "UNALIENABLE RIGHTS" given "BY NATURE'S GOD"...if you look up the original 1814 version of the star spangled BANNER and read the other three stanzas/verses it makes more sense
And the Flag is sacred symbol as “ we the people” soldier died to held that Flag even it caused their all lives! Proud to be Americans never surrender!
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And the flag was symbol of Sacrificed that Patriots died held on that flag to stand up, otherwise once it lower to the ground then we don’t have a country but submission to British rule!
Thank you for your heartfelt reaction ❤
What a sacrifice that was.
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We all need 'creation myths' on which to base our national identities. The problem comes when you embellish real events with fictional details and fictional sacrifice, that you take away from the real sacrifice made by real people.
Everyone who sees this video now thinks of "the men who died holding the flag", when in fact the flagpole suffered no damage, and nobody died holding it up. Nobody will remember the real people who died: artillerymen Lt Claggett and Sgt Clemm who were manning a cannon that received a direct hit, militiaman Charles Messinger carrying water to the outer perimeter, and militiaman Thomas Beeston hit by shapnel.
That is the corrosive result of warping real events into myths
Proud Veteran...AMEN
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Great reaction and commentary.
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Snap to attention, back straight, chest out, gut suck in, arm up hand straight along the eyebrow. Hold the salute until anthem is over.
I CRY EVERYTIME I HEAR THIS STORY
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Is it Wilson? Hello, this is my first time sitting in with you today, thank you for allowing me to do that! I enjoyed the time I spent here so I subscribed and left a like while I was here.
Never give an American an ultimatum!
I was touched by your feelings and your respect for our Anthem and our Flag! Never be sorry for your feelings!
Thanks Debbers 😊
Thank you for the heart, I appreciate it very much!
@@I-react You're Welcome! Thanks for replying!
This is how we stared in America. If you watch Boatlift you’ll see what we are made of more recently ❤
Will do.
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love you little brother
Thank you 😊
I, for some reason have been obsessed with watching different people react to this. As an American. Proud American, growing up and being raised by Vets, I can’t stand to turn the tv on and see anything. I refuse to have any social media. Besides RUclips , but, the fact is none of us can hide from what WE are doing to EACH OTHER! Here. If people were to stop and think. Maybe, maybe one day we can be great together, as the PEOPLE! I pray for my Country, and my Countrymen and women to stop and think. God Bless
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Beautiful ❤❤
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DID / DOES THE LORD HAVE A CALL UPON AMERICA ? THAT QUESTION CAN BE ANSWERED IN THE BOOK TITLED "THE LIGHT AND THE GLORY" BY PETER MARSHALL.
ONE IN A 3 BOOK SERIES.
Although the Star Spangled Banner is uniquely an American anthem, it is all of humanity's anthem. America has taken in more immigrants than any country at any time in history. America has sacrificed more of its people for the benefit of others, than any country throughout history. America has spent more money, provided more food, medicine, technology, freed more enslaved people, and raised more people out of poverty than any nation in all of human history. America has fought more wars for the benefit of other nations than any country throughout history. The Star Spangled Banner is not just an American anthem, it's all freedom loving people's anthem. That said, you should always enter legally and not just run across the border, like is currently going on.
So true!
This event took place in 1814 during the war of 1812. We had been the United States of America since 1789 - not Colonies. This was the battle of Baltimore. It was a two pronged attack. There was a ground force of infantry moving in, after burning the White House and Nations Capital, coordinating with the British Fleet in America. Fort McHenry was in the way of the advancing troops and guarded Baltimore Harbor. Fort McHenry was a military gift capable of firing cannons if their own. The ships fired out of range but could not get closer. The British lost the Battle. The bombing took place over a 25 hour period. Head about it in books about the war if 1812.
I'm loving your reactions and comments to (The Star Spangled Banner as You have never heard it)😢😢❤❤
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Mine either. Aka Retired Navy Veteran Vietnam
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This is why she musn't touch the ground, be dipped below another, be flown lower than another, and why we light her up with the red glare of mini-rockets on our Independence Day.
In a way I would like to have all the nations of the world to be like America as far as freedom is concerned and maybe even more so.
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I am from Baltimore, MD, and I was wondering if this was the narration and film that plays at the museum at Ft. McHenry or possibly the Star Spangled Banner museum in Little Italy.
I'm not sure.
I'll look it up however.
Thanks 😊
No it is a recording of a sermon by a pastor named David C Gibbs Jr. The description of the original video admits that it is inaccurate, and tells people to "look up the accurate story if want the precise info". For the record, the accurate parts are Francis Scott Key's name, that there was a battle around a fort outside Baltimore (the name of which he gets wrong) and that the flag was still flying the next day. Everything else is embellished to the point of fiction.
Thanks for the reply @@dominicbuckley8309 . I also continued my research and the fiction elements made sense just due to the size of the flag and the height of the flag pole. I don't know if live humans could hold it aloft. The numbers on casualties was dramatically incorrect too. Having said that, the story of the battle of Baltimore and the history of Fort McHenry is worth researching and exploring.
@@sandrapessaro216 The flagpole was actually a re-purposed ships mast, about 75 feet tall and weighing about two tons. The idea that any amount of people could hold that up, dead or alive, is fanciful in the extreme. The size of the garrison flag meant that you would need a pile of bodies 53 feet high to avoid it touching the ground.
We all need 'creation myths' on which to base our national identities. The problem comes when you embellish real events with fictional details and fictional sacrifice, that you take away from the real sacrifice made by real people.
Everyone who sees this video now thinks of "the men who died holding the flag", when in fact the flagpole suffered no damage, and nobody died holding it up. Nobody will remember the real people who died: artillerymen Lt Claggett and Sgt Clemm who were manning a cannon that received a direct hit, militiaman Charles Messinger carrying water to the outer perimeter, and militiaman Thomas Beeston hit by shapnel.
That is the corrosive result of warping real events into myths
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You should know your History that Happened in your state -
“ The making of America “
Anyone can mess with our Politicians, But every one should know by now never insult our FLAG and never never mess with our BOAT"S! and there are many examples of that.
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Ya'll don't let Old Glory touch the ground ya'll don't let Dixie touch the ground and ya'll don't let the Texas Flag touch the ground. PERIOD! ❤❤
Imagine what would possess a young man, or a father, to walk into the fray, pick up that flag, and wait to die - just to refuse to quit - to refuse to surrender - to, in his final act, send a message to all his countrymen within view of the flag, to keep fighting, that it isn't over, do remain free, don't give up, protect my family in my absence, the Lord is on our side, and goodbye brothers.
"held" should be "hail'd" (hailed)
"ramperts" should be "ramparts"
Where in Africa are you from good sir?
I'm from Nigeria 😊
this is the real reason why the American Patriot will never kneel for the flag of the national anthem. ignorance excuses you for the past but now we know the real songs meaning
Right!
You dont need to be sorry, we're not. Next time you see an American emotional over the flag or the anthem, know that they are not sorry. And you shouldn't be either
This video takes the inspiring story of Key’s poem and makes up myths that degrade the actual events of that night - particularly the ridiculous lie that the flag’s mast was held upright by the bodies of fallen patriots. Quick research reveals that only 4 Americans were killed at the Battle of Ft. McHenry. I guess the writer of this presentation thought the story needed more drama, so to solicit more emotion he rewrote the history to enhance his storytelling. Our American heritage needs no exaggeration, hyperbole, or melodramatic ghost writers.
I love this story, it's very inspirational, but unfortunately they took a lot of liberties with the truth.
There was no ultimatum to lower the flag by the British. The British were defeated at Fort McHenry September
15, 1814 and the war wasn't over till January 8, 1815, three and a half months later, after the Battle of
New Orleans. There were no negotiations to release any military prisoners. Francis Scott Key went to secure
the release of one person, a friend of his, the elderly Dr. William Beanes, a civilian non-combatant who had
been taken prisoner by the British as they departed Washington, DC after burning the White House, the Capitol,
and other government buildings. Key didn't go into Fort McHenry that morning after the bombardment. He was held
by the British for two days after the bombardment before he was released. The shelling that night wasn't non-stop.
A nor'easter blew in and all the rain dampened the gunpowder and fuses so the cannons couldn't be fired. Patriot's
bodies didn't hold up the flag. US casualties were 4 killed and 24 wounded, and nobody went and held the flag up,
it was never knocked down. The British, however, lost about 330 men when we managed to fire back when the British
ships got too close. So, there's a lot not that's true in this story. My love and respect for the flag is not
because of this story, but for the freedom the flag represents and because of my love and respect for the men who
fought in all the wars to keep it flying. Also, the notion that when the flag waves in the breeze the wind is
created by the last dying breath of every American soldier who died to defend it and the freedom it represents.
Too bad it’s not true.
It's not? 😮
@@I-react The original video is very inaccurate (which is admitted in the original description). The narrator is not a historian giving a lecture, but an evangelical pastor giving a rabble-rousing sermon (hence the 'Amens' you can hear in the background). The only accurate things he says is that there was a lawyer by the name of Francis Scott Key, there was a bombardment of a fort outside Baltimore and the flag was flying the following morning. Everything else is embellished to the point of fiction. For the record:
1. The narrator doesn't seem to know that this occurred in 1814, almost 40 years after "the colonies" had declared independence from "the mother country". Full diplomatic relations were established in 1785, and Britain quickly became the United States principal trading partner. In 1812, the United States declared war on Britain (not the other way round), with President Madison calculating to annex Canada while Britain was engaged in Europe fighting the dictatorship of Napoleon, and also to recapture thousands of slaves who had escaped to Canada. It wasn't until after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 that Britain and Canada mounted a concerted counterattack in 1814, during which time the US had attempted to invade Canada *ten* times in two years (including the burning of York, the capital of Upper Canada).
2. He cant even get the name of the fort right (it's "McHenry" not "Henry");
3. Francis Scott Key was not a lawyer in Baltimore, but in Washington DC. He just happened to be in Baltimore at the time.
4. There were no "thousands of prisoners" on board the ship, there was a single man (Dr William Beanes) who was billeted in an officer's cabin aboard the flagship (contrary to popular belief, warships of this period did not have cells or prisoner facilities). Key didn't go because he had been asked by the government, he went because he was a personal friend of Dr Beanes. The release was arranged by the official prisoner negotiator, Colonel John Skinner.
5. There was no "ultimatum" from the British Admiral: the attack on Fort McHenry was only a diversion from the main attack on Baltimore which was being carried out by land forces on the adjacent peninsular under the command of General Ross (who was killed in the initial skirmish). The attack on Baltimore was just one of a series of relatively small hit-and-run raids down the seaboard; the main strategic aim was actually naval supremacy in the Great Lakes, to prevent further invasion attempts by the US.
6. After Dr Beanes was released, they went back to Key's own ship before the assault started, so all the supposed conversations with the prisoners still locked below are obviously fictional. However, it is true that Key was repeatedly asked whether the flag was still there: by Dr Beanes....and the repeated questioning really annoyed him!
7. There were no "women and children" in the fort: it was a heavily-armed military installation with twenty-three heavy cannons, and over a thousand fighting men, both artillerymen and militia. Together with the infantry and militia at North Point and Hampstead Hill, the defending Americans outnumbered the attacking British troops by 5 to 1.
8. There were no "hundreds of ships" firing at the fort, but five specialized shallow-draught gunboats with long-range mortars. Some light frigates accompanied them, but they wisely stayed out of the range of the larger cannons on the fort. It was not a "constant barrage of guns": a total of about 1500 rounds were fired, so only an average of one shot a minute over 25 hours.
9. The firing did not start at sunset and continue through the night, it started at sunrise one day and continued for 25 hours until the following day, when the ships ran out of ammunition.
10. Key's ship was more than 8 miles away from the battle, from where he would not have had direct view of the fort, only the bombarding rockets. Key did not visit the fort afterwards (indeed they didn't get back to Baltimore until two days after the battle) and so could not have witnessed "bodies propping up the flagpole", the fort had 13-foot thick walls and had suffered very little damage and minimal casualties: out of over 1000 personnel, there were only 4 dead (2 died manning a cannon, one carrying water and one died later from shrapnel) and 24 wounded.
11. The flagpole was untouched. It was actually a 75 foot tall mast weighing nearly two tons, so the idea of anybody being able to hold it up is pure fantasy. The fixation on not letting the flag touch the ground actually dates from the Civil War, not 1812.
12. Whenever they talk about the "British admiral" they either use a picture of Nelson (who had been dead for 9 years at that time) or Captain Thomas Cochrane (who in 1814 had been retired from the navy for 6 years and gone into parliament).
13. But the absolute "icing on the cake" was putting the words of Emilio Zapata, a 20th century Mexican revolutionary, into the mouth of George Washington.
All this is freely accessible on the website for both Fort McHenry and the Smithsonian, where the Garrison Flag is now displayed, as is the actual battle report from the fort's commander (Major Armistead).
Why people choose to believe this fairy tale, I have no idea. So much fiction, yet the narrator missed the one truely miraculous moment during the bombardment. A British mortar actually landed on the powder magazine, but failed to explode: if it had done, the entire fort would have been destroyed.
@@dominicbuckley8309 Thanks!
@@paulbach it still pretty much followed what happened though. The details of the soldiers made up to carry the story. What difference does it make that Key was from dc? It's 45 mins away from Baltimore. They said that to show it occurred in Baltimore. The British did attack the fort & the soldiers did everything to keep the flag up. The flag was still up after the battle. It's in the Smithsonian Institute now.
@@I-react basically it is....all the details of the conversations of the soldiers etc. were added to move the story along. There was a battle, the soldiers kept the flag up through the fight.