Tag: Labor Day
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Labor Day and History, 5 Sept 2022
When Francis Scott Key first saw “by the dawn’s early light” a huge garrison flag, the original star spangled banner, flying over Ft. McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland on 14 September 1814, he knew that the British bombardment of the Fort had failed to prompt an American surrender. The British fleet withdrew, and the successful defense…
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