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The current U.S. national anthem is part of a poem written by Francis Scott Key (The poem is called Defence of Fort McHenry), a lawyer and poet who was an American stuck on a british ship when they were attacking Fort McHenry during the war of 1812. The anthem was not adopted until March 3, 1931.

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