Day 137:
Despite our full intentions of heading into D.C. today to see some of the famous memorials, we got kind of a late start and decided rushing back from Maryland was completely unnecessary. Instead we drove to Baltimore to see Fort McHenry—the site from where Francis Scott Key wrote his famous poem that later turned into our National Anthem. It was a stifling day, but beautiful on the bay. The wind was blowing and the flag really was flying proud. It was kind of overwhelming and really quite amazing to think back a couple hundred years to when bombs were coming from that beautiful water! I shuddered at the thought and welled up at the sight….
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Despite our full intentions of heading into D.C. today to see some of the famous memorials, we got kind of a late start and decided rushing back from Maryland was completely unnecessary. Instead we drove to Baltimore to see Fort McHenry—the site from where Francis Scott Key wrote his famous poem that later turned into our National Anthem. It was a stifling day, but beautiful on the bay. The wind was blowing and the flag really was flying proud. It was kind of overwhelming and really quite amazing to think back a couple hundred years to when bombs were coming from that beautiful water! I shuddered at the thought and welled up at the sight….
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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