She died on the effects of alcoholism. At 21 . At 21. And hear the story of the star spangled banner and the song it inspired on the 200th anniversary of the american flag, long may it wave. And good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im joie chen. What would you do if you discovered a stranger trying to break into your home with no time to call for help . Would you grap a weapon . Grab a weapon . Would you take the security of your family into your own hands . Droit citizens and the police chief say theyre within their rights. To think twice and shoot first. Where is the safety . This is the safeties. Hadnt touched her familys semi automatic rifle in years. But the 27yearold mother knew exactly how to pull the trigger when a group of teens tried to blake into her detroit home. This is the first hole you shot . Thats the warning shot. Shots. This is right here out the door. So you fired from here . I fired from here. Surveillance video shows the boys had been casing the house in the february snow for a half hour before they finally made a daring move to force open her back door. Mitchell was ready for them. Right now [ gunshot ] were you prepared to kill someone if that was the end result . Killing was far from my thought. I didnt think i was going to kill anyone. I didnt want to kill anyone just scare one. Five of those intruders were killed. Mitchell didnt hit anyone but she says she knew her gun would provide more protection than the police. Did you think about calling 911 before you called the police . No. Why . They not around the corner. They could have broke in took my stuff hurt me hurt the kids, been long gone and the police still arent here. Michigans 2006 selfdefense law protects homeowners who defend themselves with deadly force whether they honestly believe their life is in danger in hai their home. Detroit ranked the most dangerous big city. Yvonne mcgee bought a gun two years ago. Until a pitch black morning this year. Did you see him or you actually heard him first . I was right here. This close to the window . I was here. She says she was on the phone with 911 when a man with a crowbar broke through her back window. I said to him if you come in im going to shoot him. My son was saying, shoot him mama, shoot him. I said, no, he needs to come in. When he saw me, i discharged my weapon. He yelled so loud. What was that moment like, when you realized, i could have killed that guy. I felt bad had he died but at that moment i felt anger how dare you come in my house i was so angry at that moment until i felt good, i svelte great. You i felt great. Police officers will not be on every corner in front of every house every minute of the day. James craig joined the city, a little over a year ago. When i came here, its fair to say many know who live in detroit had no confidence in this police department. You know, Response Time set roughly about 58 minutes to l 911 calls to service. Just as an example. During craigs short tenure, there has been some successes. Violent crimes down 200 in 2014, compared to the same period last year. And craig says, the Response Time to 911 emergencies is now below 11 minutes. But these days craig is getting the most attention to encourage law abiding citizens to defend themselves with guns. Hes repeated his message in Television Appearance after Television Appearance. A wellarmed good citizen can be the biggest deterrent to violent crime. We look at our Good Community members that have concealed weapons. Theres a greater likelihood in the sthif city of detroit that city of detroit that they shoot. I dont support vigilantism. What i have continually stated is this is about self defense. This is a person confronted with imminent threat. What is your answer to those who break into someones house will they get what they deserve, if they are shot and killed . Thats a terrible statement, they get what they deserve. The better message is, make a decision, dont do it. Devana webb, her 15yearold son Demonte Moore accompanied his friend to a house. The man inside shot them both. I could see the big street from my door. I said my son aint gone, my son is going to turn that corner in a minute, walking. He never turned it. The initial Police Report says webbs son was trying to break into the home. A claim webb questions. The autopsy says he suffered multiple gunshot wounds. He collapsed on the sidewalk outside this home. Whats it like for you to come to this spot . I just wish he could have lived. The Police Report says trying the break in. That means that they didnt step a foot in that house, they didnt break in. Instead of it being a case of self defense, webb wonders if her son was simply caught in the middle of a quarrel between the homeowner and the girl he was with. If he was breaking in the house and he got shot, okay. But now that im investigating in the story more, now i have a problem. He didnt know my son. He knew the girl. The man who shot moore hasnt responded to our requests for an interview. And an investigation is ongoing. I said once the chief was acting like the old west. Ron scott is with the Detroit Coalition against police brutality. He worries the chief has made it too easy for shooters to claim selfdefense. So you think hes encouraging the gun . I think so. Chief is not highlighting options that people have taken as opposed to shooting someone. I think you can retreat to an area in the home which is a little safer than the other places. I think you can use other weapons if you have to use them that are less than lethal. Do you think that the police are doing a good job when it comes to helping assess these are less than homicides . Not when they come out when the shooting is fresh and say thats what you get for breaking into someones home. My comments isnt to incite. This is about self defense. People are sick and tired of homes broken into in detroit. Thats the case. Same situation in the future each would pull the trigger again in a heartbeat. America tonights Lori Jane Gliha joins us here. Is the chief suggesting the situation in detroit is really Something Different than anywhere else in the country or does he think this sort of thinking would apply elsewhere . Detroit is a unique situation in the way that crime happens there. To put it in perspective, theres already been more than 5,000 violent crimes, there is sort of a feeling in the culture there, and especially after years of slow Response Times, that people do feel like they need to do Something Differently than just depend on 911. That said, theres been in recent years a strong push for people to mention, remind themselves that they have a right to bear arms. The chiefs way of practice, coming from los angeles where he was a police officer, talked about conceal carry law was unheard of. Then he went to new england, and the people said we carry guns there and thats why the crime is down. He changed his opinion. Whether this is happening on nationwide, detroit is a unique crime. If the police chief is saying all right, there are instance he where this is justified as self defense, it is not up to him, it goes to prosecutors and judges. Thats true. Some are saying hes encouraging this or encouraging justified homicides. He doesnt have anything to do with the siting personally whether it is justified, it goes to the prosecutors office. Police do influence what the prosecutor is looking at but its up to the prosecutor to call it a justified homicide or not. America tonights Lori Jane Gliha, thanks very much. After the break, on america tonight, return to baghdad . As a Violent Group gets closer to baghdad, president obama warns, it could be a threat to the u. S. As well. Also on our show, bowe bergdahl, prisoners find it tough but you can go home again. I find it immoral to destroy Something Like this an epic fight to preserve a way of life. We ask for strength as we take on one of the most powerful forces on the globe a battle for the very soul of this state, but is time running out . Its a wholesale effort to buy government. Fault lines Al Jazeera Americas ground breaking. We have to get out of here. Award winning investigative documentary series wisconsins mining standoff on Al Jazeera America guns. There are two to three million guns in a population of only 8 million people. And gun laws. After those laws came in, there have been no more mass shootings. How Different Countries decide. Their father had a gun. Their grandfather had a gun. Who has the right to bear arms . 5 days guns around the world a primetime news special series all next week only on Al Jazeera America now as the violence in iraq, a small brut vicious group moves closer to baghdad, sunni rebels are now said to be just 40 miles from baghdad, theyve already taken over large parts of Northern Iraq. Theyre part of the i. S. I. L, a group that was once rejected by al qaeda, a growing power so threatening that thousands of Iraqi Military cut and run, rather than face them on the battle field. In response, irans president hasan rouhani, has pledged hes support to iraq his support to iraqs prime minister. They will have to act fast. After sweeping rapidly through Northern Iraq and leading little resistance, the i. S. I. L. Fighters gain ground, making ground in diala province. In an unauthenticated recording, raising the pressure on the shiite government to be prepared to fight back. I call on iraqis who are capable of carrying arms, in defense of their people, their country and their holy shrines should volunteer to achieve this sacred goal. A quick response. We have volunteered to defeat the criminal i. S. I. L. Fighters. Well go to mosul and god willing we will fight them. The promise of attack and response also raises the risk of iraqi civilians. Hundreds already fleeing the now rebel held cities and fleeing to the relative security of the northern kurdish region acknowledge fearing the sunni i. S. I. L. Forces against others. The situation is terrible. Our normal life has been destroyed. The exist are tension. We are all turkmen. Thats why we left our homes and came here. Many have no money, nowhere to go. The deteriorating situation has forced the prime minister, nouri almaliki. To ask for help from the United States government. The president says military operations are once again on the table although not including boots on the ground. The solution he says must be with the iraqi government. The United States will do our part but understand that ultimately its up to the iraqis as a sovereign nation to solve their problems. What happens next in iraq will depend on the army which by some estimates lost more than 30,000 men when they deserted their bases in mosul. Al jazeera asked them why they fled. We fought for five days and ran pout of ammunition. We asked for support and nothing arrived. We asked for ammunition, nothing arrived. How can i continue fighting . The big commanders ran away. They left us with nothing. They took a lot of equipment. We were based at the mosul hold. They took the hostages and took them, they seized tanks, armored vehicles. Its a catastrophe. U. S. Army bowe bergdahl, there was no heros welcome for Sergeant Bergdahl when he arrived on friday. Greeted only by political wrangling and unanswered questions. His flight from germany returned him just as he had vanished, under cover of darkness. At the Brook Army Medical Center in san antonio, bergdahl will face the last phase of his treatment until he greets his family and is reintegrated into life after captivity. Means he is ready to do more interacting with debriefers and also with the medical team. So slowly but surely it is improving. His physical health is improving but the emotional and psychological strain is continuing. His family has not joined him in san antonio and he has not asked to see them. How he became a prisoner and whether he had deserted his post . The daily beast posted two letters reportedly written by a captive bergdahl to his parents over the last two years. One reads if this letter makes it to the u. S. A. Tell those involved in the investigation that there are more sides to the situation. And the writer asks washington to wait until all evidence to come in. Before passing judgment on him. Words echoed by defense secretary chuck hagel this week on the prisoner swap that led to his release. Part of the controversy doctors have worked on to keep him from learning as he comes more. Yes, at some point in time he will be exposed to the Media Inquiries to him whats going on in the world. But in the past he has had no exposure. We want to titrate that to expose it to him. The difficult road that lies ahead for him. Malcolm nance, a specialist in the military program known as s ser, survival, evasion and recovery. He falls into that nebulous gray area between prisoner of war because he was a combatant, and according to the geneva conventions there was a declared combat. And a hostage to the hakani network. Another stage in the treatment, what is happening in this reintegration process . Well, this is a critically important process thats going on with him. There is he is at the brook army hospital, melt processing, now hes going through more extensive treatment and his psychological reintegration into the United States and into the u. S. Army. So thats very important step. Because for the last five years he has been living in the environment where a he wasnt trained and b hes been under intense stress, intense psychological stress. So he needs to are brought back and reintegrated into our society and the force he came from. And by the stress you refer to, this would be different, after all we heard about vietnam and the prisoners of war in that venue nap but in this case were talking about a force that might have been treating him how . Well, there would be almost no difference between how certain people in viet flam were treated and sometimes how terrorist hostages are treated. Theyre kept in a confined space, often theyre kept in close confinement where theyre trapped in cages and tied down. He says there are indications that he had that occur to him. But being the fact that he had no liberties, everything that happened to him was dictated to someone else, trying to keep your sanity is what brings about those stressors. He has not reached out to his them. Can you give is some understanding of what must happen in a psychological state . Wouldnt you want to go immediately to your family . Well, that depends. We in the survival resistance escape community understand that throughout the entire history of captives in the u. S. Armed forces and other nations that every person behaves differently. Some people feel the shame of having been taken captive in the first place and have great difficulty understanding the emotions that will come when greeting your system to the point where theyre just i incapacitated. One thing can judge him on this. This is a personal relationship between his father and his mother. No one can say how a prisoner of war should behave when they comes home. Malcolm nance, thanks for being with us. Its my pleasure. Coming up after the break. Giving a lift to life on the reza. Rest. Rez. Everybody has a right to get ahead. Everybody. Indian country, the challenges facing another generation. What kept you from getting addicted . Losing my family members. One by one . It opened my eyes to where i needed to sober up because i was a heavy drinker. On techknow. Were heading to cutting edge cal tech campus heres a look at just a few of the students shaping the future of science see the latest research, discoveries and breakthroughs inside some of the worlds most advanced labs. How do you scale somethig you learned from a jelly fish . Techknow every saturday go where science meets humanity. This is some of the best driving ive ever done, even though i cant see. Techknow. Were here in the vortex. Only on Al Jazeera America. Theres more to finical news than the ups and downs of the dow. For instance, can fracking change what you pay for water each month . Have you thought about how Climate Change can effect your grocery bill . Could Rare Minerals in china effect your cell phone bill . Or, how a hospital in texas could drive up your health care premium. Ill make the connections from the news to your money real. Now, a snapshot of stories make headlines on america tonight. General motors has once again issued a recall linked to faulty ignition switches. Recalling 500,000 cam eros, led to 50 crashes and 13 deaths. A new report, reveals air Traffic Controllers still working shifts that leave them little sleep. Faa report dozens of incidents finding air Traffic Controllers sleeng on thsleeping on the job. Sa San Francisco looks headed in the footsteps of seattle of putting a 15 an hour minimum wage, matching seattles recent move. President obama traveling to Indian Country, fourth sitting u. S. President to visit a reservation, first in years to hit commitment to improving life on the Standing Rock reservation and others. The pow woul pow wow is about keeping sacred traditions alive for the next generation. Lets keep our traditions together to put more Economic Opportunity in indian community. Because every american including every native american, deserves the right to get ahead. The last time he visited was the 2008 campaign. Since then, extending rights and resources in Indian Country. But like Standing Rock, staggering unemployment. One of caifnt obamas promises to Indian Country was to improve health care. Among the toughest issues there, alcoholism. One in 10 native american deaths were alcohol related, three times worse than the general population. Few have been hurt harder than pine ridge reservation. Be an invitation to an even greater sense of devastation. It is hard to imagine a place at the same time more breathtakingly beautiful. And as heartbreakingly sad. As the land of the Oglala Lakota. The pine ridge reservation, home of the bad lands and for more than a bitter century, what the outsiders call the olgala sioux nation. The tribe of sitting bull, who led the charge against custer at custer. Theyve been cut down by a different foe alcohol. Clarence was born and raced on the res. He knows what alcohol and addiction do to a family. Clarence, tell me where we are . We are at the grave of one of my aunties, emily joyce roland. Tell me about her. Emily was young, 21 years old, died from the effects of alcoholism. Alcoholism . At 21 years old. How long had she been drinking . Since the age of 14 or younger. At age 14, she was drunk, walking in the dark when the car driven by other drunk teens struck her. Clarences grandfather is here too, cirrhosis of the liver. And aunt, prescription drugs. Clarence left school to raise his brother and two sisters. What kept you from getting addicted to alcohol . Losing my family members. One by one . Finally, it opened my eyes, i needed to somebody are up. I was a heavy drinker. My mother was passionate, laughed a lot and had a really good sense of humor. She really loved us kids. This is one of clarences only pictures of his mother. Hes in the back, with the smile on his face. But on the res even the happiest families are broken by alcohol. Tribal president brian brewer. So tell us what has alcohol done to your community . Alcohol has destroyed our community, our nation. Of the 45,000 people in your tribe, how many are directly affected by alcohol . I would say probably well id say 100 affected by it. Those that are addicted to it show that its over 50 . Over 50 are addicted. Over 50 are addicted. In my family, i went to very few funerals where they died of natural causes. They died in car accidents, cirrhosis, fights, shootings. Thats all connected to alcohol . All connected to alcohol. Whats most surprising is that the tribe has tried stop the booze. This is a dry reservation. There are no Liquor Stores on the res. Even possession of alcohol is illegal. It has been for only a few months of the tribes history. Where does it come from from . Almost all of it from just outside the reservation, across the border. Over on that side is Oglala Lakota country, governed by the constitution, by the tribal laws, by the tribal traditions. But a few steps over the border youre in nebraska, governed by a different set of laws and different morality. Welcome to unincorporated white clay, nebraska. The population is said to be just 14. But on the strip that passes for a town there are four Liquor Stores. Which sell more than 4 million cans of beer, malt liquor, juice they call it, a year. Almost all of it to people from the res or who now just sleep and wait on the streets. My dad died of alcohol. My best friends little brother, because of alcohol. And i watched a dude get shot because of alcohol. So i lift it alt and thats how my life is. They have no respect for our laws. No respect at all for our laws. Thats how they look at us, were just money in their pockets. If i took a meth truck up the line. Im sure nebraska would have something to say about that. Same thing. Not going in today. Yes they are. Every other day but not today. Yes they are. So tribal president brewer joined protestors last summer trying to block trucks from making their deliveries. And a camp called zero tolerance sprung up just across the border, dwrawg attention to the daks drawing attention to the epidemic. Clarence and his brothers, posted pictures on a facebook page, oyete area network. Oyete means people in lakota. This is my are relative, shes intoxicated in this video. This is what we do. A lot of us youth come together. And people want reservation. It is the young people like the ones who joined us in clarences kitchen who seemed the most active in the fight and the most vocal in white clay. When we stopped to photograph a sign that objects to alcohol, we met the man who painted it. He makes memorial crosses for a living. The average Life Expectancy is 48 for men, 52 for women. He made his own brothers cross after the brother passed out in winter and froze to death. Clarence knows the streets. He started buying booze from the stores here when he was just 14. This ones a there. This is what they drink. I know its not just my family who is inflicted with alcohol. It is everybodys family on the reservation. Now clarence is hoping to lead his own family away from this broken path. Looking ahead on america tonight. I think they should have told me it wasnt my fault. I think they should have not heaped more shame on me. Because i was already filled to the brim with shame. I didnt need anymore. A fall from grace at a South Carolina university and how the reaction of a Faith Based Community shattered the victims trust. Correspondent sarah hoye with a exclusive report monday on america tonight. Later in this hour a stitch in time. The song and story of the star spangled banner, reunited after 200 years. Im Joe Berlinger this is the System People want to believe that the Justice System works. People wanna believe that prosecutors and police do the right thing. I think every american needs to be concerned about that. We do have the best Justice System in the world, in theory. The problem is, its run by human beings. Human beings make mistakes. Id like to think of this show as a watch dog about the system. To make sure justice is being served. Wrongful convictions happen, we need to be vigilant. With our personal liberties taken away from us, it better be done the right way. Is justice really for all . As weve been reporting, iraq situation continues to be more and more vicious. This saturday on talk to al jazeera, the former ambassador to syria, robert ford, talks about the growing crisis in iraq and the response to syrias civil war. The relatively small force of i. S. I. L. And related and supporting militias took over a big city. The iraqi army evaporated. What does that tell you about the state of play in baghdad and the ongoing efforts to stand up National Institutions . This was something when i was in iraq for five years our team was working on all the time. It was a tough job then and its clearly still a tough job. I dont understand fully the military operations that occurred in ninewa or mosul. The fighting reportedly lasted for five days, casualties on all sides, but the iraqi army was forced to withdraw from the second largest city in the country, thats a concern, comes in a difficult time in iraq because there was an election and the different political blocks are beginning to discuss how to form a new government. So this burst on the scene of the Islamic State into mosul and into ninewa , sets upon a very form of government in baghdad. The parliament has asked for emergency powers. Now that he speaks as a private citizen should he get it . I think the question will be what should he do with it . Because the problems in iraq are not only military problems, theres a political issue. For a long time, for years, the Islamic State of iraq and the levant was basically under control and was on its back heels and thats because at that time there were sunni aish aishz airbus who werarabs whowere fighting them. They must have political reasons for not fighting them. It is important as we do the formation in baghdad that the concerns of the sunni arabs about addressed so they can be remobilized to help put down this Islamic State of iraq threat, which is not just a threat to the shia of iraq, even though it is absolutely a threat to iraq, but theyre a threat oall the communities. Were talking about a country the United States that spent a lot of time, a lot of treasure, a lot of blood in iraq and is now watching across oceans and continents as the country seems to disintegrate. Why is this happening . It goes back to what i said, that theres still an element of disunity, politically, within iraq itself. Still divisions between the kurds and the sunni arabs and the shia. These are not things you can paperover. They have to be dealt with, perhaps gradually, perhaps slowly. But fixing problems seem to be like riding a bicycle. You dont necessarily have to move fast but you do have to keep moving. As they look forward in baghdad and setting up a new government after the elections, a Reform Program i think will be an essential element to address the concerns of the different communities. All of them have reasons to be afraid. At the same time that the Islamic State is overthrowing in the northwest of the country, all of the communes are afraid and they need to come together to agree on a way to address some of the underlying political issues in the country. At the same time they deal militarily on the ground. After decades as a diplomat. After decades of speaking for the government that you serve. Are you still getting used to the idea that you can talk for yourself . Tell me what you really think . Oh absolutely. I have to tell you its important as we look at these issues to understand what governments are doing. Is and then to be able to comment on them. Hopefully it provides some understanding both to officials and to private american citizens. I do hope people watching the program understand the threat that the Islamic State poses not just to the people in mosul or baghdad but especially in the vacuum thats opened up in eastern syria. We now have a large space of territory. Historically in arab history it was one desert entity , and places like afghanistan and mali, that they can use that open space to bring in people to prepare for operation s outside al jazeera, in the middle east, really its a danger to everyone. You can see former ambassador robert fords interview this saturday on talk to al jazeera, at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. A celebration of old glory and its historic reunion of the National Anthem making history, next. A. Only on Al Jazeera America. Oh my and finally this hour you might have heard about flag day june 14th somewhere in school but do you know that a whole week is actually devoted to honoring old glory. The flag and our nation . The star spangled banner stitches the past to the future. Adam may takes a look at two icons, the flag and the National Anthem that it inspired. It is tattered and fragile. We like to say it embodies the nation. Fort mchenry garrison flag. On the display at the smithsonian for almost 100. A new companion, borrowed from baltimore for occasion. Its the original star spangled banner lyrics. Some call it a poem which, along with the flag is celebrating an anniversary. Its the perfect marriage for a short period of time. To bring the original lyrics that Francis Scott key penned with the flag that inspired those words. Pairing the flag and the lyrics to the star spangled banner is a first. But its nothing new. O say can you see its a song as familiar to americans as a babys lul babyl aby. You about how did that become so familiar . The anthem gets more publicity and the anthem gets more famous. Devoted his life to history. He is the chief of interpretation at baltimore, marylands Fort Mchenry National monument. His mission is bringing our distant past to place. This is the power of place. Heres the thing. People love the anthem, they love the flag but they understand that fort mchenry is where they both come together. Literally on the exact original ground in which you and i are standing. The star spangled banner ask turning 200 years old. The Maryland Historical society researched the original flag and recreated it as accurately as possible. Down to the very last stitch. One of the major sources that i looked at was the conservation report from the smithsonian. And actually reading the description of what this fabric looked like and actually being able to take it to a weaver and say, can you do this . I didnt flefl want to do it if i couldnt fly it. Thats important for this, and the way we went. A team of devotestitchers from maryland assembled and took the yeomans work. From all across the world, people wanting to contribute a stitch. Who divvied up the tries and stars. In quilters view, the stripes are sowed together. The stars are aml aprill appliques o appliqued on top. Your hand underneath your thup on top and you want to be about a quarter inch from where the thread has come through the fabric. You touch your finger underneath underneath. It pops back up and thats a stitch. Youre actually going to let me put a stitch in this . Absolutely. Okay we go straight down. You dont get to bend it now. Uh oh, i made a mistake. There you go. 200 years ago, baltimore was a boom town in a new nation. But the british had not given up the idea of getting their former colonies back in line. America declared war against the british in what is known as the war of 1812. That is an 18 pound ball. As you can see, it doesnt employees. Historically they dont it doesnt explode. Historically they dont call them cannon balls. What are they called . A shot. The National Anthem. The beginning of the war wasnt clear sailing. Were not doing too well in the war at this point in time. All of 1813 is really important basically just to say were here. Were not going anywhere. It has a lot of kind of gravitas. The complander of forth mchenry wanted to raise a garrison flags, 30 feet to 42 feet large enough to be clearly visible to the armada of ships in the river. Mary pickersgill was paid 493. Thats a lot of money. Today it would be nearly 6,000. Shes not making a flag that she thinks is going to be in the smit smithsonian institution. Shes make a flag for a fort. She worked in a small row home located just outside downtown baltimore. Mary, five other family members and an indentured servant worked six weeks straight, sometimes working by candlelight, to make their deadline. The fabric was something nobody had seen before. Sometimes mary said i know syril better than this. The material bunt ing cost about 12,000. You have a price tag in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Talk about inflation but there could have been even more work involved if the state count had been accurate. 15 stars and 15 stripes. So at this point in time when theres a new state added to the union each state gets a new star and a new stripe. A piece of trivia however, in 1812 there are actually 18 states in the union not 15. They just hadnt gotten around to putting the stars and stripes on the flag. They dont change the flag until 1818, 21 states in the union at that point in time. Then what does it go back to . At that point they tha take t back to 13 stripes, for the 13 original states and they continue to add stars. This is the only flag in our history that has more than 13 stripes. Americas past within arms reach. 200 years ago next year will mark another important american anniversary. The star spangled banner was written, an ode to the garrison flag, and british bombardment on fort mchenry. Here it is september 11th when the british were spotted. That must be extremely intimidating to see all these foreign ships coming. There were three times as many as in the entire United States navy. Francis scott key had gone to a ship in the river. He was negotiating a prisoner release when the battle began. The spot is marked with a bu aye bu you buoy. Can you see the flag by dawns early light . Then he reflects, so proudly we hailed, at twilights last gleaming. Key wrote a poem. It was originally called the defense of forth mchenry, setting the words to a tune of a favorite song. He had a is liking for a drinking song. He really really likes the tune loot but he definitely had this in mind. Do you like this . Ill try. To an acrion in heaven the true sons of harmony sent a petition. Oh say can you see by the dawns early light, so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming. Oer the ramparts we watched were so grantly streaming. Do you see this differently than when you started working on this project . Yes, this is so personal. This is my flag. This is our flag. This flag is going to fly soon. And people are going to go, thats our flag. And its just very emotional. But it was really the first True National symbol that we had. We didnt really have, say, national architecture, right . We couldnt sea we invented the english language because we didnt. Well what do you have . You have this flag thats red, white and blue that really represents what the country stands for. A flag flying in the face of an enemy. A symbol with simple beginnings whose power has lasted for 200 years. The star spangled banner, long may it waive in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Please remember, monday night, Faith Based Community shattered the trust of victims. Correspondent sarah hoye with the story. You can join the conversation with us on twitter or on our facebook page, good night. Well have more of america tonight, tomorrow. America not coming to iraq . President obama holds off giving more u. S. Military aid. Well have a talk with an American General who trained iraqi troops. A consider this exclusive, afghanistan goes to the polls. We could speak to the man who could be the countrys next president. And so much for science fiction,