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08/06/2026

On August 24, 1814, British troops marched into Washington and burned the Capitol and the White House. President Madison had already fled. His wife Dolley refused to leave until the full length portrait of George Washington was taken down and carried to safety, and when the frame would not come off the wall fast enough, she ordered it broken.

The painting hangs in the White House today. This engraving was published in London within weeks of the burning. The war that nearly destroyed the capital could not erase its memory.

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08/05/2026

The War of 1812 came to Long Island. John R. Satterly entered the Army as a captain and was stationed at Sag Harbor, where British raiders struck in 1813. After the peace, his neighbors trusted him so completely that, as his stone says, he was almost constantly employed in public affairs, rising to Major General in the state militia.

He rests in Setauket. Look closely at the marker by his stone. It says Revolutionary War. The stone knows better. Even memory needs caretakers. That is the work.

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08/04/2026

We took this photograph in Boston Harbor, where the USS Constitution is still a commissioned warship of the United States Navy, the oldest afloat anywhere in the world.

During the War of 1812 her crews defeated British frigates in single combat, and sailors swore British cannonballs bounced off her live oak hull. Old Ironsides. She was launched in 1797, when George Washington was still alive. You can walk her decks today.

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08/03/2026

This is not a replica. This is the flag. It flew over Fort McHenry through twenty five hours of British bombardment, and when Francis Scott Key saw it still flying at dawn on September 14, 1814, he wrote the words that became our national anthem.

Fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, originally thirty by forty two feet. Eight feet of it are gone, given away snip by snip as keepsakes in the 1800s, including one entire star that was cut out and never found. What remains survives at the Smithsonian in Washington, kept in low light so it can last another century. The anthem is about this exact piece of cloth. It was still there. It still is.

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08/02/2026

Last week you met the last men of the Revolution. This is the war their sons fought. In 1812 the United States was twenty nine years old, and it went to war with the most powerful empire on earth for the second time. The Capitol burned. The White House burned. And over one Baltimore fort, a British fleet fired rockets for twenty five hours while an American lawyer watched from a ship, waiting for dawn to see if the flag was still there.

This week, America’s second war of independence. One story each day.

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08/01/2026

Sometimes a story finds you. We recently heard from Kurt Babe, whose father, Colonel George Babe, USMC, served more than thirty years in the Corps. He came in at the end of World War II, landed at Inchon, and fought his way to the Chosin Reservoir and back. Wounded three times in Korea. Three Bronze Stars with Valor.

In Vietnam, he commanded the 9th Engineer Battalion.

But one detail stopped us cold. At Chosin, Col. Babe helped carve an airstrip out of frozen ground so the wounded could be flown off that mountain. Readers of this page know what those runways meant. One of them carried three of our own Baker Company Marines to safety: Glenn Galtere, Elgin Vyvial, and Joe Jane. In Elgin’s words: “It was a lifesaver.” The Marine who built. The Marines who were saved. Brought together here, seventy six years later.

Every one of these men carried a story. Our job is to make sure they are not lost. If that work matters to you, we would be honored to have you as one of our 76 Founding Supporters. Link in bio.

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07/31/2026

Lemuel Cook was told he was too small to serve, unless he signed on for the whole war. He signed. He was sixteen.

He rode with the 2nd Continental Light Dragoons, fought at Brandywine, and stood at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered. His discharge was signed by George Washington in June 1784.

He died in 1866 at 106, among the last men of the Revolution. Six days. Six men who saw 1776. Thank you for meeting them with us.

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07/30/2026

Alexander Millener said he was a drummer boy in Washington’s Life Guard.

Historians have debated his account ever since, and the records are not certain. What is certain is that in 1864 America embraced him as one of its last links to the Revolution, and his face was photographed alongside the others. History keeps its questions. We keep the photograph. He died in 1865, among the last men of the Revolution.

Photograph 1864, Library of Congress.

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07/29/2026

William Hutchings of Maine was fifteen when he was captured by the British at Castine.

By his account, they released him because he was too young to keep. He went home, lived a century, and died in 1866 at 101, among the last men of the Revolution.

Photograph 1864, Library of Congress.

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07/28/2026

Daniel Waldo joined the Connecticut militia as a teenager and was captured by the British. He survived captivity, went to Yale, and spent his life as a minister.

In his nineties he was elected Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. He died in 1864 at 101, among the last men of the Revolution.

Photograph 1864, Library of Congress.

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