Happy Birthday, America! (Post YOUR favorite photo of Ol' Glory!)

Free Republic ^ | July 4, 2007 | Stallone

[Stallone]

Happy Birthday, America!

[GulfWar1Vet]

[Professional Engineer]

Good one!

[GulfWar1Vet]

[Salem]

04 July, 2007

[Soaring Feather]

Why I Love My Country


I love her magnificent majesty
Her colors: RED, WHITE and BLUE
from her mighty mountain peaks
to her delta lows
and the way her mighty rivers flow
Her frozen land of glaciers
to her deserts barren and cold
I love my mighty country
on whose rocky roads I've run

I love her Pride and Pomp
I love her patience not to tromp
I love her freedom, she lets me be me
with responsibility
and the SISU (guts) to pay the dues
to take care of me at all times,
but should I need a hand,
she is grand and lends a hand up
-not a hand out


She said, I could have an education
that I would have to work for it
no one would hand me my grades
It's a prudent decision she has made...


I love her, because I can run
through the roses at three A.M.
and dream of faraway lands
Be happy in my skin
Oh, yes, I love my homeland
She is Grand.


by Soaring Feather

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Thank you. I am a diehard baseball fan, and patriot. This is one of my top 5 “timeless” baseball pictures. This along with Nolan Ryan having Robin Ventura in a headlock, Randy Johnson plucking the bird, Cal Ripken waiving when he broke the games played streak and Salmon/Eckstein embracing after winning the pennant.

[RonDog]

I am not familiar with that picture. :(

What is the story behind that baseball player with the flag?

[usmcobra]

[SnarlinCubBear]

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." +Geo Patton

[Professional Engineer]

The two jerks crouching were trying to burn it in the outfield during a game to protest the Viet Nam war.

[Graymatter]

[Professional Engineer]

Rick Monday.

Monday's act heroic after 30 years

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Rick Monday was playing right field when two anti-war (vietnam) protesters jumped onto the field to light the flag on fire. Rick ran between them and “stole” their flag. He still has it to this day.

[mikrofon]

From a big supporter of our troops...

[daisyscarlett]

U.S. soldiers stand at attention during a ceremony at Camp Victory, Baghdad, July 4, 2007 where Soldiers were reenlisted and naturalized as United States citizens. Around 160 troops from 52 countries were given U.S. citizenship during the ceremony. REUTERS/Ali Al-Saadi/Pool (IRAQ)

[Liberty Valance]

[RaceBannon]

I just got that e-mail last week, that was an awsome story!

[2nd amendment mama]

[Stallone]

Miracle!

[aomagrat]

The greatest save in baseball history.