British guns hammered Baltimore Harbor. Rockets lit the sky. It should have been the end. But through the night, one thing stayed visible in the smoke and fire — the giant American flag over Fort McHenry. Torn, battered, but unbroken. Francis Scott Key saw it, and wrote the words that became our national anthem: “the flag was still there.” That’s America in one image: no matter how hard the barrage, the flag stands. And if the flag stands, the people stand with it. #USHistory #Patriotism #Military