Comments on: The agony begins with the rockets (July 9) http://www.maderatribuneredline.com/the-agony-begins-with-the-rockets-july-9/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:42:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen Reed http://www.maderatribuneredline.com/the-agony-begins-with-the-rockets-july-9/comment-page-1/#comment-5985 Stephen Reed Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:12:55 +0000 http://www.maderatribuneredline.com/?p=3397#comment-5985 Are you testing us? My family thinks maybe you are. Maybe you intentionally put an error in your column incorrectly dating Francis Scott Key’s composition. You had an error about the Revolutionary War the week before, and many people caught it. Are you testing us? The War of 1812 was fought from 1812 to 1815, and 1814 was when Key wrote “The Star Spangled Banner.” He could not have written in it 1914. He was long dead by then, and that was World War I. Here is a quote that has been used by many people in varying forms: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” I guess Americans need to brush up on their history, and I’m asking you not to be their history teacher. If you are testing us, maybe you had better put the right answer at the end of the article for the people who don’t know their facts. <strong>Stephen Reed age 9, 4th grade, Madera</strong> <em>(Editor’s note: Stephen is absolutely right about the date being wrong in the Editor’s Corner. He is a sharp-eyed fellow. However, Key no doubt would have post-dated the song for 1914 if he had known it was going to show up that way in The Madera Tribune, where errors are not made, but history is just slightly misinterpreted.)</em> Are you testing us? My family thinks maybe you are. Maybe you intentionally put an error in your column incorrectly dating Francis Scott Key’s composition. You had an error about the Revolutionary War the week before, and many people caught it. Are you testing us?

The War of 1812 was fought from 1812 to 1815, and 1814 was when Key wrote “The Star Spangled Banner.” He could not have written in it 1914. He was long dead by then, and that was World War I.

Here is a quote that has been used by many people in varying forms: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

I guess Americans need to brush up on their history, and I’m asking you not to be their history teacher.

If you are testing us, maybe you had better put the right answer at the end of the article for the people who don’t know their facts.

Stephen Reed
age 9, 4th grade,
Madera

(Editor’s note: Stephen is absolutely right about the date being wrong in the Editor’s Corner. He is a sharp-eyed fellow. However, Key no doubt would have post-dated the song for 1914 if he had known it was going to show up that way in The Madera Tribune, where errors are not made, but history is just slightly misinterpreted.)

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