. >> yo, this is your boy francis scott key, jr., mr. glare and this is the breakdown of the "star spangled banner." let's go. yo, before these young artists was making street anthems, there was me. i made the o.g. anthem, the national anthem. some songs are about falling in love, right, and some about hitting the dance floor. this song right here, this song, this is about me being surprised about seeing a flare. i knew it was going to be a hit but a national anthem? that's dope. i'm chilling off the coast in my boat because the british army captured me and forced me to quarantine. but anyway, i'm watching the british. they land the lammer down on my boys the americans, dumping on them with the canons, dumping on them with the muskets, bop, bop, bop, bop! i'm thinking, yo, this is a rap. we getting washed, yo! about to be over for the americans. about to be eatings tea and crumpets and beans for breakfast and shit. the next morning, though? oh, shit... ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hail ♪ talking ab

the third lieutenant colonel george armistead who commanded fort mchenry in the battle where francis scott key wrote the national anthem. george took the original "star spangled banner" he did about the flagpole and took it home and it remained in the possession of the armistead family for 90 years until george's grandfather gave it to the smithsonian so if you go to the national him museum of history you'll see that came out of the armistead family one of the most iconic pieces of it in american history. george dies a few years after the war probably have a heart attack so the longest living in highest-ranking of the brothers is lewis' father walker keith armistead. the third man ever to graduate from west point in 1818 when lewis's 1-year-old he's chief engineer of u.s. army in 1828 when lewis's 11 walkers and the brigadier general. it's no coincidence that louis armistead as a soldier. it's no coincidence his three younger brothers were confederate soldiers and it's no coincidence his son was a confederate soldier and on the staffing gettysburg as a teenager and i witnessed to pickett's cha

famous of all is the third, lieutenant colonel george armistead who commands for mchenry when francis scott key wrote the national anthem. the original star-spangled banner, he took it off the flagpole and took it home and it remains in the private possession of the armistead family for 90 years so george's grandson gave it to the smithsonian. if you go tomorrow to the national museum of american history and you see the star-spangled banner , that 200-year-old then wisp of a flag that came directly out of the armistead family, one of the most iconic pieces of early americanhistory . george dies a few years after the war so that longest living and highest ranking of the brothers islewis's father . walker t armistead. not well-known today, there ever to graduate from west point, 1818 when lewis one-year-old is chief engineer of the u.s. army and when lewis is 11 walkers named brigadier general, one of the highest ranking officers . it's no coincidence he is a soldier. it's no coincidence that his three younger brothers were confederate soldiers . it's no coincidence his son also named walker was

the defense of fort mchenry by francis scott key was later sung to a popular tune from his day that isled banner, so when rescue crews at the world trade center found a flag in the rubble and raised it over ground zero, that was exactly the right emblem. we have heard a lot lately how worried people are over america's divisions. compared to the unity many people felt after the towers fell but unity is only part of the 9/11 story, the smaller part, i think. the biggest part is in our national anthem, resiliency in the face of calamity. the 9/11 commission's report described a failure of imagination that prevented us from envisioning the worst in our enemies. but a similar failure now might prevent us from envisioning the best in ourselves and our rose colored recollections of unity might be making things worse. vice president harris addressed the issue of unity today during her remarks in shanksville, pennsylvania. >> unity is imperative in america. it is essential to our shared prosperity, to our national security, and to our standing in the world, and by unity, i don't mean uniformity