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Francis Scott Key, a lawyer and a fledgeling poet, saw the Battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the war of 1812. The story goes that bombs were going off and canons were lighting the sky-- along with musket fire-- through the smoke and from the lighting of the weapons Francis Scott Key could still see America's flag waving above the fort.

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