Thank you for that link, Don. I might add that if you haven't seen the size of the flag that flew over Ft. McHenry on "the dawn's early light", it's hard to believe that we had a flag pole big enough to fly such a huge thing. It is displayed in the Smithsonian's main lobby, and covers the entire lobby wall opposite of the entrance. At first, one thinks that the lobby wall is just painted like a huge American flag, but when you realize that it's actually a real flag, it easy to understand that this thing was a gigantic billboard in the face of the British fleet. It is three times the size of the big dealer flags, and nearly ten times the weight, according to the National Park Service employee on duty. I don't know how such a flag could have been raised or flown in any wind or turbulance from that bombardment. The pole must have been a California Redwood.