Yesterday, I was motivated to write on my facebook about the Star Spangled Banner because it was in 1814 that Francis Scott Key wrote it.  My motivation was quickly turned into believing I was somehow on the Jay Leno Show because of the confusion I had caused.

A few facts remain that we declared our independence on July 4, 1776 and that Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to the National Anthem yesterday morning in 1814 as he saw the flag flying over Fort McHenry from eight miles away.  That prompted the following discussion between a young lady and myself:

So Mike, we won the war in 1814?

Yeah, well… (Interrupted before I got a chance for clarification)

Is that what the Thirty Year War was about?

Uh, no.  The “Thirty Years War” was something different. We didn’t fight from 1776 to 1814. There were two different wars… (Interrupted again before I had a chance to explain the difference and to let her know that 1776 to 1814 does not quite equal thirty years)

“Oh, is that what World War I and II were about?

“Um, no.”

It was at that moment that I started looking around for a camera crew. Jay Leno must have been playing a serious practical joke on me and I just knew that some camera crew was hiding somewhere getting a big kick out of all this.

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