The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

American Francis Scott Key awoke on the morning of Sept. 14, 1814, to find that "our flag was still there" after horrific 25-hour British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

The American flag is once again flying at a Franklin Township corner where it was replaced over the weekend by a giant banner for former President Donald Trump. A Dispatch reader messaged a photo ...