There is the residue of our empire (our, including you in America). It is strange, but the existence and unprecedented event that our empire was and still is, while fully acknowledging the seemingly inevitable disagreeable aspects of empire in general and our empire, whether it's 1910 with a Union flag and the Cross of St.George or 2024 with the Stars and Strips aside the various Commonwealth flags, within it is an expression of a deep desire and capacity for friendship, as we might say, among those who know that which only they know. I think we want to sing your songs most often not for politics or fun but because they feel as if we wrote them. Of course a person can feel a fondness for a song in any language from any culture for any reason that it speaks to them, I listen to many songs I can hardly speak a word of, and most cultures probably do have songs that speak to something in most people, but few have such a wide domain with such independence and yet near perfect and constant peace between them and not only that but allegiance too. I think a mark of this is how many songs that are considered old and traditional to one country or another, that we each argue over who actually wrote it first or who it truly means most to. Beside our larger disagreements, I feels as though those insignificant disagreements show the reality of a great friendship that desperately wants to endure and grow, or else surely we wouldn't really care about such things.

On the same day this service was held, British Prime Minister Tony Blair invoked Article 5 of the NATO treaty for the first time in its history and declared war on Al-Qaeda. We always had your back.

You sure are the edgelord. Show some respect.

In my experience you are right, it is generally called Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory. Nobody worries about the rest of the stuff you thought might worry the Brits though. In fact , at the changing of the guard ceremony outside Buckingham Palace Her late Majesty, the Queen had the American Anthem played , and we all now what had happened just before the Dawn's Early Light.