he wears a replica of the one that armstead wore on this momentous occasion. [applause] >> we have about ten minutes until the 9:00 hour. for those who are interested when the flag is hoisted yankee doodle is what will be played. the star-spangled banner will be played later, but historically on that september morning. the fifes and drums of the garrison played yankee doodle. it was really used like a national anthem before the "star-spangled banner" was adopted. the united states had two pieces of music that it used alternately "yankee doodle" and "hail columbia". with the adoption of the "star-spangled banner," "yankee doodle" is heard now more in historic performances. >> the gentleman had a question, he said the dawn's early light and yet, 9:00, it is not exactly dawn, it has been dawn for a while. one could simply laugh it off, however, francis scott key was asking that question. he asked the question, o say can you see by the dawn's early light. language was so important to francis scott key. some visitors were irate when they saw a question mark on an e

after the battle of fort mchenry, the commander of the fort, major george armstead, essentially took as a personal souvenir. >> stephen: wow. >> even though it was a very expensive piece of government property. it cost 400 bucks. >> stephen: the battle of fort mchenry which was 200 years ago...? >> tomorrow. >> stephen: that is the battle francis scott key is describing in the star spangled banner. >> exactly. francis scott key was out in the middle of the river on a ship, and he watched the british fleet bombard fort mchenry for 27 hours. >> stephen: and this was the flag over fort mchenry. >> this was the flag raised at the end of the battle. >> stephen: to celebrate and commemorate the 200th anniversary of that battle and tomorrow his writing of the national anthem, you have a new book called "the star spangled banner: the making of an american icon." >> that's right. >> stephen: this is really about the song, isn't it? >> this is about the flag, the song, the battle, the whole nine yards. >> stephen: okay the diet book. >> exactly. >( laughter ). >> stephen: was the star spangled

. >> sergeant first class chuck armstead was injured on third combat tour in iraq. >> we want we were on a come battalion outpost south of mosul it was iraqi training compound also. it was my day to pull guard and i happened to be upstairs initially and i heard a gunshot. but and soldiers knew if something happened to call me on the radio and let me know what was going on. no one ever called. i walk outside i'm going to find out what's going on to check on him to make sure he was okay. i walk outside. i didn't see anybody at the gate. i didn't see him. and so i started to proceed to walk further and out steps an iraqi from behind the vehicle with an ak and he just shot me. shot me in the stomach. one went through and shattered my hip. pretty much came out othe other side of my butt cheek. pretty much paralyzed me from the waste -- waist down. they gave me no more than two hours to survive. they shot an artery. i bled out and they couldn't get any circulation to my leg anymore. they had had to cut it away. >> anyone killed. >> three wounded. i was one of the three wounded and two other