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Collapsing Nation Still Somehow Expects Singer to Perform Anthem Sober (thehardtimes.net)
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[–] kewjo@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

the entire songs context is around the Battle of Baltimore which included 25 hours of naval bombardment. from the perspective of the ships where it was witnessed and given the volume of shells fired they assumed everyone would be dead.