Takashi Savory, a resident of far-flung Chichijima island in the Ogasawara island chain, was presented with a replica of the ... island and gave him the Star-Spangled Banner to mark the occasion.

George Armistead to make a flag for Fort McHenry. This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott Key’s renowned poem ...

They didn’t know until they saw the flag that we’d won, so this is the genesis of the poem. O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?