Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Visibility. This stirred up rats' nests of red tape in Park Service offices in Washington, Chicago, Baltimore and Richmond, Va. Last week the Park Service began flying the flag both night* & day over Fort McHenry's carefully reconstructed ramparts...
Last December he developed a new interest: Maryland's ancient, star-shaped Fort McHenry, which in 1814 was the target of the bombardment referred to in The Star-Spangled Banner. He sat down almost at once and wrote the National Park Service a letter. It began...
...Recently I was coming up the Patapsco River toward Baltimore. The time-at the twilight's last gleaming. My eyes could be turned in only one direction-toward Fort McHenry to see that our flag was still there. It was not. At the classic flagpole spot where at noon 'the broad stripes and bright stars o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming,' there was nothing but the dim line of a naked pole. . . . That unflagged pole was one of the bitterest disappointments of my life...
...fort's custodian had certain difficulties. For one thing, he had only one floodlight, and the flag flapped in darkness if the wind turned. For another, flags cost $17 apiece; due to increased wear & tear he was using one a week and rapidly running out of funds. But the final lines of Dr. Beck's letter made it clear that there could be no hanky-panky about the matter...
...Soon again," he wrote, "I hope to be coming up the Patapsco at midnight. There will be a Chesapeake blizzard. Visibility will be low. But gloriously floodlighted on Fort McHenry will be the driving Star-Spangled Banner, giving proof to the world that our flag is always there...