Without using Google or Wikipedia or any similar source, answer the following poll regarding our nation's most famous flag.

""The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry",[1] a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812." (Source = Wikipedia)

So who actually created the flag that inspired our national anthem?

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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and religions." - Jlarsen

Francis Scott Key!!!!!!!

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“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else." Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Public office is the last refuge of the incompetent." Boies Penrose
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"Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind" Stuart Gorrell

You got an answer out before I had a chance to add the poll! Keep in mind though, that this question is about the flag itself, and not the song.

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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and religions." - Jlarsen

Yes, I was being a smart-ass.

Contrary Mary made it.

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“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else." Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Public office is the last refuge of the incompetent." Boies Penrose
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"Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind" Stuart Gorrell

A sad case of premature expostulation.

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“Quod scripsi, scripsi"

"Sometimes, the source of the beautiful dawning light that drives back the darkness, is your house burning"

this feels like the tests I took in school and I still have nighhtmares, thank you very much!

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Courtesy of Swissman

A gun in the hands of a free man frightens and angers the autocrat, not because he fears the power of the gun, but, rather, the spirit of the man who holds it.

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Yeah but you can't always count on the answers that would have been considered correct at the time...

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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and religions." - Jlarsen

side note (and I didn't know specifically who made it)...

There were two flags there actually...one smll one for the fort itself, and a HUUUUGE one that was displayed as a "stick-in-the-eye" to the attacking fleet...sort of a "We're still here, a-holes!" type of thing.

Since Key was actually on a British ship when he wrote the SSB, it was the HUUUUGE one that he wrote of...

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

Betsy Ross is the person given credit for sewing the original banner of our fledgling nation, however I am certain an ancestor of my Aunt Lillian was around somewhere

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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and religions." - Jlarsen