Do you know what the national anthem is? Our national anthem is The Star Spangled Banner, it is written by Francis Scott Key, who was a lawer and poet. The Star Spangled Banner was made our national anthem 75 years ago. Our national anthem was first written as a poem and then written as a song. The poem was written in War of 1812. Key was sent to two British ships to make the British release an American prisoner. They agreed to set the prisoner free, but Key overheard a conversasion that they were going to attack a For McHenry so they released him until the war was over, in the mean time Key wrote the poem Defense of Fort McHenry which is now known as The Star Spangled Banner. Years later it was made into a song by a British song
