The Michael Berry Show.

The Michael Berry Show.

President Donald Trump gave a great speech at Fort McKinney on Memorial Day back in three

years ago now, 2020.

He tells the story of the soldiers that held that fort against a British invasion.

I love this story, and I love the way he told it.

As our brave warriors have shown us from the nation's earliest days in America, we are

the captains of our own fate.

No obstacle, no challenge, and no threat is a match for the sheer determination of the

American people.

This towering spirit permeates every inch of the hollowed soil beneath our feet.

In this place more than 200 years ago, American patriots stood their ground and repelled

a British invasion in the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812.

Early on a September morning in 1814, the British fleet launched an assault on this peninsula.

From the harbor, some 30 British warships attacked this stronghold.

Rockets rained down, bombs burst in the air, and the deck of one ship, a gallant young

American, was held captive.

His name was Francis Scott Key.

For 25 hours, Key watched in his may as fire crashed down upon this ground.

Through taunts of rain and smoke and the dinner battle, Key could make out 15 broad stripes

and 15 bright stars, barrage and battered, but still there.

American forces did not waver.

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