From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

but any American flag." After the War of 1812, the flag and the words it inspired became a sensation. Key's poem was quickly set to a popular — and ironically British — tune and was soon ...

Max Impact, stationed at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., is one of six musical ensembles that form The U.S.

John Monsky is a collector of stories. They live within the stars and stripes of American flags — or, at the very least, what ...

A curtain would fall to reveal it, filling an entire wall of the National Museum of American History's great ... cherished about the glories of the War of 1812. One episode that's hard to forget ...

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Although the War of 1812, which produced Francis Scott Key ... “If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.” With the war’s outbreak, scattered incidents ...

The American Flag is displayed outside of Westwall Militaria in Carson City. But it could just as easily be posted inside ...

Key was certain that American defenses at Fort ... had requested that a giant flag be made to fly over the fort a year earlier, with the War of 1812 well underway and certain at some point he ...