Readers will recognize the title of this column as part of the first stanza of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Our national anthem was written by Francis Scott Key in the War of 1812. The British were attacking Baltimore’s Fort McHenry with everything they had. When morning came, that thirty-by-forty-two-foot precious piece of cloth was still flying—the Americans won (again). [FYI: That torn and batte…
