Trivia
An earlier national anthem was sung to the tune of To Anacreon in Heaven by the English composer John Stafford Smith. This tune was later added to Francis Scott Key's poem The Defence of Fort McHenry to become The Star-Spangled Banner, which was later proclaimed the United States' national anthem.
"Ons Heemecht" was played during the memorial service for the supposedly dead Luxembourg Army Lieutenant Henri-Batiste LeClerc on the "A Rich, Full Day" episode of M*A*S*H .
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