From the article “Fort McHenry” on Wikipedia:

During the War of 1812 an American storm flag, 17 by 25 feet (5.2 m × 7.6 m), was flown over Fort McHenry during the bombardment. It was replaced early on the morning of September 14, 1814 with a larger American garrison flag, 30 by 42 feet (9.1 m × 12.8 m). The larger flag signaled American victory over the British in the Battle of Baltimore. The sight of the ensign inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry” that was later set to the tune “To Anacreon in Heaven” and became known as “The Star Spangled Banner”, the national anthem of the United States.

Gershon Rosenzweig’s Hebrew translation of the poem, דֶגֶל הַכּוֹכָבִים from his Mizmirot ha-Arets (1898), is transcribed from that found in Joseph Magil’s 1903 collection of patriotic hymns, קֹֽבֶץ שִירֵי־צִיּוֹן וְשִׁירֵי־עָם, pp. 136-139.

This translation of three of the four of the anthem’s stanzas into Yiddish appears in the compilation of Berl Lapin’s work, Der fuler ḳrug lider-zamlung, 1908-1950 (1950). Some 20th century siddurim include the National Anthem (in its original English), including that of the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation’s Sabbath Prayer Book (1945) and Rabbi Jacob Bosniak’s Prayers of Israel vol.1 for weekdays (1937). –Aharon Varady.

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This prayer was selected as the closing prayer for Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday by Mordecai Kaplan, Eugene Kohn, and J. Paul Williams in their anthology of prayers and readings for civic holidays, The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 47-48. The prayer by Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) was first publicly read in 1942 in the course of a United Nations Day speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.^[1] The first “United Nations Day” was a World War II Allies’ day of solidarity and military parades launched by Roosevelt on US Flag Day, June 14, 1942, six months after the Declaration by United Nations. The day was observed in New York City as the “New York at War” parade, in London, and by the Soviet and Chinese governments.  Some details of the speech and the prayer from We Stand United and Other Radio Scripts by Stephen Vincent Benét (1945) follows:

On United Nations Flag Day, June 14, 1942, there was broadcast over the NBC Network Toward the Century of the Common Man, a script especially written for the occasion by George Faulkner. Stephen Vincent Benét was asked to write the closing speech for this script, which is here reprinted.

Following immediately after the close of this declaration, there was broadcast on the same program the transcribed Flag Day speech of President Roosevelt, who during the course of his address read the Prayer that was written by Stephen Vincent Benét at the request of the Librarian of Congress, Archibald McLeish.

Included in the all-star cast were Charles Boyer, Joseph Calleia, Ronald Coleman, Melville Cooper, Donald Dickson, Peter Lorre, Thomas Mitchell, Alla Nazimova and Maria Ouspenskaya. The music was composed by Robert Armstrong and Kurt Weil, with the orchestra conducted by Mr. Weil. The co-producers for NBC were Calvin Kuhl and David Elton.

The prayer, untitled in Roosevelt’s speech, was re-published in 1945 under the title “Prayer of Brotherhood” in The Link, a periodical disseminated to military chaplains of the US Armed Forces by the National Council of Service Men’s Christian League.

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108th Congress, 1st Session
Issue: Vol. 149, No. 87 — Daily Edition (June 13, 2003)

https://www.congress.gov/crec/2003/06/13/CREC-2003-06-13-pt1-PgS7865-2.pdf