HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
...and in honor of those who have fought for us to have our independence, I would like to quote President Ronald Reagan:
FREEDOM IS NEVER MORE THAN ONE GENERATION AWAY FROM EXTINCTION. WE DID NOT PASS IT TO OUR CHILDREN IN THE BLOODSTREAM. IT MUST BE FOUGHT FOR, PROTECTED, AND HANDED ON FOR THEM TO DO THE SAME.
I attended the Tabernacle Choir's 4th of July performance. It made me proud to be and American. Aubrey taught Relief Society and reminded us that it requires sacrifice on all our parts to keep the blessings of God on our nation.
Our family celebrated by walking/sweating/and dragging bikes decorated with flags and balloons in the children's parade. Saturday morning was the Centerville parade with the fly over and veterans being honored on floats and in cars. Following the color guard, I caught a picture of Cameron still standing at attention long after everyone else had sat back down. I hope he always knows about the brave men and women in our family who have sacrificed for all of us.
...and now we are off to fireworks, the perfect end to a perfect weekend for a beautiful country.
...and just in case you have forgotten the lyrics to my favorite song...here they are...
| The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics By Francis Scott Key 1814  |
| Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! |
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