Star Spangled Banner sung as a national anthem? No, he didn't, it was, the song was written in 1814, Key lived until the middle part of that century, it does not become the anthem until 1931, 117 years after he wrote it, so I did mention earlier, and I know we get listeners coming on and off, that I do think that Key would be astonished to find out that his song was a national anthem, because again, he did not, and people don't really understand this, he did not set out to write a battle, he was on a ship out behind the British, he'd been sent out there, the British had captured an elderly doctor from Maryland, and the family was terrified what would happen to this elderly doctor, and they hired Key to go out and try to negotiate his release, and Key was out there, he and another man found the British fleet, and they did successfully negotiate the release, but it was several days before the attack on Baltimore, the British knew they were going to attack, they weren't going to send Key back into the city with details of the attack, so he wasn't really a prisoner, you hear that, he's detained on his own ship, under guard, probably tethered to the admiral's ship, and they were going to keep him until the British were overly confident they would win this battle, as soon as we win the battle, we'll let you go, Key, so that's why he was out there, he was right among the British ships, right behind the bomb ships, so there was a, the attack on Fort McHenry from those British naval ships was 25 hours, they did 1500 bombs and 700 rockets, where you hear the rockets red glare, for 25 hours, so Key was a close witness to all that, and the next morning, the whole story of the song is, it's misty, and they're not sure which flag should be flying over the fort, and they see an American flag, so this, Key is released two days later, the battle ends on September 14th, 1814, he's released on September 16th, he had taken some notes, that night, September 16th, two days after the battle, he takes a room in a hotel in Baltimore, and he writes the four verses of his song, so he was writing about the context of a battle he had just witnessed, imagine if any of us were virtually in the midst of a battle, if you read his four verses and you understand it, that's what he's writing about, in fact, there's a question mark, a lot of people, when they see, we sing the first verse of the anthem, we don't sing all four, we just sing the first, and when they put them on scoreboards at stadiums, the song ends with a question, the first verse ends with a question, and people are sometimes upset, what are you saying?