The National Anthem The United States National Anthem is a very well respected song by all Americans. This song symbolizes our freedom and what we had to endure in order to obtain this freedom. Even though the song is very important to our country most do not know who wrote it, when it was written, or why it was written. This paper should hopefully better inform people about “The Star Spangled Banner,” our nation’s National Anthem. To most people the National Anthem seems as though it took an enormous amount of time an effort of many people to write, but surprisingly there was only one author, Francis Scott Key. Information on w