MissHeyDay

Daughter of the King 👸👑✝️, Wife 👰‍♀️, Mom of four 👧👧🧒👧, Teacher 🎓Leader 👩‍🏫Coach🙋‍♀️of many, Auburn girl always 🦅🐅🌳🧻

[Auburn University @AuburnU]

From the Plains to the big stage — and back home again. 🧡

Home looks good on ya, Ella. #WarEagle

[MissHeyDay @LieslReiners]

@LawrenceBJones3 Prayers for you- you are missed. Take care of you.

[MissHeyDay @LieslReiners]

@Mike_kim714 @Titleist 24

[Tweeth Mitchell @tweeth_mitchell]

Koivun playing a full college golf season and then making the Tour playoffs in just 6 weeks of golf is wildly, wildly impressive stuff.

[Jason Campbell @JCam_17]

Your words are either building people up or tearing people down. Use your words as a place of encouragement rather than discouragement and one by one, we can build confidence and purpose back into each individual!

[Auburn Tigers | AL.com @aldotcomTigers]

Former running back Brian Battie will be graduating with a degree from Auburn University in August, according to his GoFundMe page.

"It is a testament to Brian’s strength, determination, and his love for life," wrote Adriene Battie. "After everything he has faced, he continues to find a way forward, to find light in the darkness, and to never give up." #WarEagle

[MissHeyDay @LieslReiners]

@shaunvlog_ There is a Buc-ee’s in Auburn, AL on that route. Stop by to see Auburn University and get a lemonade at Toomer’s Corner.

[E2C Network: The Auburn Experience @E2C_Network]

🇺🇸 I believe in my Country, because it is a land of freedom and because it is my own home, and that I can best serve that country by "doing justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with my God”.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

In September of 1814, America was once again in trouble.

The young republic was only thirty-eight years old. The War of 1812 had gone badly. British troops had marched into Washington, burned the Capitol, set the White House ablaze, and now turned their sights toward Baltimore. If Fort McHenry fell, the harbor would be open, the city would likely follow, and another devastating blow would be dealt to the fragile nation.

Amid this uncertainty, a young American lawyer named Francis Scott Key sailed under a flag of truce to the British fleet. He had come to negotiate the release of a friend, a physician the British had captured.

He succeeded.

The British agreed to free the doctor.

But there was a catch.

Because Key and his companions had seen too much of the British fleet and learned too much about its plans, they were not allowed to return to shore. Instead, they were detained aboard a ship in the harbor and forced to watch the coming battle from behind enemy lines.

On the morning of September 13, the bombardment began.

For the next twenty-five hours, British warships unleashed somewhere between 1,500 and 1,800 bombs and rockets upon Fort McHenry. These were the “bombs bursting in air” and the “rockets’ red glare” of the song—not poetic embellishments, but terrible realities.

Key stood on the deck through the endless day and the long, terrifying night. Every explosion lit the darkness for a fleeting instant before the smoke swallowed everything again. Somewhere beyond that wall of fire stood the fort. Somewhere beyond it flew an American flag if it still flew at all.

He could not see.

He could only listen.

As long as the guns continued firing, there was reason to hope. The British would not waste ammunition on a fort that had already surrendered.

Then, just before dawn…

The guns fell silent.

For the first time all night, there was only stillness.

It was the most frightening sound of all.

Had the fort finally fallen? Had the defenders surrendered? Had the flag been torn down in the darkness while no one could see?

There was nothing to do but wait.

As the first light of September 14 slowly pushed back the smoke, Francis Scott Key strained his eyes toward the distant fort.

Then he saw it. Not a British flag.

The American flag. Still there. Still flying.

That flag was no ordinary banner. Months earlier, the fort’s commander had commissioned a Baltimore flagmaker, Mary Pickersgill, to sew a flag so enormous “that the British would have no difficulty seeing it from a distance.” It measured roughly thirty by forty-two feet, carried fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, and was so large it had to be assembled on the floor of a brewery because no ordinary room could contain it.

That was the Star-Spangled Banner.

The very flag Key saw through the morning mist.

The very flag that still survives today in the Smithsonian.

Overcome by what he had witnessed, Key reached into his pocket, pulled out an envelope, and began writing. The words came from a heart that had spent an entire night fearing his country might disappear with the dawn.

He first titled the poem Defence of Fort M’Henry.

Within days it was printed and circulating throughout the country. Before long, people began singing it to a melody they already knew—an old British tune called “To Anacreon in Heaven,” originally written for a London social club. There is something beautifully ironic in that: America’s most beloved patriotic song borrowed the melody of the very nation it had just survived. It also explains why the anthem is so notoriously difficult to sing. It was never written for ordinary voices gathered in stadiums or school assemblies.

The song spread quickly and became one of America’s favorite patriotic hymns, but it would wait more than a century before receiving official recognition. Not until 1931 did Congress declare “The Star-Spangled Banner” the national anthem of the United States.

[MissHeyDay @LieslReiners]

Happy 250th, America!

[MissHeyDay @LieslReiners]

@JaniceDean Miss Janice, what a beautiful career that impacted so many…and what a precious son to remind you of that.

[MissHeyDay @LieslReiners]

@roddreher Welcome to Alabama the Beautiful!

[Becca @BarnerBecca]

I mean, how can you not be romantic about college baseball??🥹

[Auburn University Ginn College of Engineering @AuburnEngineers]

An Auburn engineer. A Marine. A Medal of Honor. 🇺🇸

The legacy of James E. Livingston now lives on at Auburn.

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[Auburn Track & Field @AuburnTFXC]

More History Made. 👀

Auburn advances 3️⃣ to men’s 100m finals for 2️⃣nd time in school history!

#WarEagle

[Drunk Aubie @DrunkAubie]

FREDDY… you need to get on the road brother! It’s game day traffic

[Hal Baird’s Burner @HardBarn]

Stormed the beaches with the creed in his pocket. Cannot be more badass than that.

[Will Collier @willcollier]

Notable, “SECNow” spent a half hour last night covering a softball game that hadn’t been played yet, for a school that’s been in the SEC for 45 minutes (full disclosure, I’m a Texas alum) but no time for a founding member that just won a golf national championship. @SECNetwork