While most Americans know the story or at least the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” comparatively few Mexicans know who was behind their national anthem.
Francis Scott Key famously wrote the former after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812, but the composition of the “Himno Nacional Mexicano” remains a largely unknown tale.
“It’s time that schools and government pay attention to the education of children, they should know what the national anthem means, who wrote it, when and under what conditions,” said Tec de Monterrey researcher Arlene Ramirez Uresti this week. “These things are now being forgotten.”
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