Daryl Sng @darylsng.com · 17h One thing interesting about this young lady singing the anthem is that she emphasises the “our flag was still there” line. It’s so much the point of Key’s lyrics – the whole song is about checking whether our flag is still there, and if it yet waves. Yet many other singers emphasise the line before…
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Even though the “rockets’ red glare” and “bombs bursting in air” are all about enemy bombardment. I liked her choice very much: the one time in the lyrics that there is a triumphant answer to the question of whether the flag – and by extension Fort McHenry and the nation – has survived the onslaught