[Mo1]

Happy 4th of July Snow Bunny and All

If tomorrow all the things were gone
I'd worked for all my life,
And I had to start again
With just my children and my wife,

I'd thank my lucky stars
To be living here today,

'Cause the flag still stands for freedom
And they can't take that away.

I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know I'm free,

And I won't forget the men who died
Who gave that right to me,

And I gladly stand up next to you
And defend her still today,

'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land
God Bless the U.S.A.

From the lakes of Minnesota
To the hills of Tennessee,

Across the plains of Texas
From sea to shining sea.

From Detroit down to Houston
And New York to L.A.,

There's pride in every American heart
And it's time we stand and say:

I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know I'm free,

And I won't forget the men who died
Who gave that right to me,

And I gladly stand up next to you
And defend her still today,

'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land
God Bless the U.S.A.

~ Lee Greenwood ~

Have a very happy, safe, and FUN Independence Day with your friends and family!!!

Just be sure and take a minute to remember why we all live free and be proud of our Country and what it stands for.

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[Snow Bunny]

Hi MO1, how wonderful, thank you so much!!God bless you Mo1, and a fabulous July 4th my friend.

[MistyCA]

Thanks for that neat post! :)

[MamaB]

What wonderful pictures everyone has!!! It has been a while since I have been up this early. Our daughter is back in the hospital. We thought she had a stomach virus but the doctors found out that her bicarbs are abnormal. So, which came first, the virus or the bicarbs problem. She is seeing a kidney specialist. These past few days have not been too much fun. MamaB

[JustAmy]

I was born on July 4, 1776, and the Declaration of Independence is my birth certificate. The bloodlines of the world run in my veins, because I offered freedom to the oppressed. I am many things and many people. I am the nation.

I am 250 million living souls — and the ghost of millions who have lived and died for me. I am Nathan Hale and Paul Revere. I stood at Lexington and fired the shot heard around the world. I am Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry. I am John Paul Jones, the Green Mountain Boys and Davy Crockett. I am Lee and Grant and Abe Lincoln.

I remember the Alamo, the Maine and Pearl Harbor. When freedom called, I answered and stayed until it was over, over there. I left my heroic dead in Flanders Field, on the rock of Corregidor, on the bleak slopes of Korea and in the steaming jungle of Vietnam.

I am the Brooklyn Bridge, the wheatlands of Kansas and the granite hills of Vermont. I am the coal fields of the Virginias and Pennsylvania, the fertile lands of the West, the Golden Gate and the Grand Canyon. I am Independence Hall, the Monitor and the Merrimac.

I am big. I sprawl from the Atlantic to the Pacific — my arms reach out to embrace Alaska and Hawaii. I am more than five million farms. I am forest, field, mountain and desert. I am quiet villages — and cities that never sleep.

You can look at me and see Ben Franklin walking down the streets of Philadelphia with his bread loaf under his arm. You can see Betsy Ross with her needle. You can see the lights of Christmas and hear the strains of "Auld Lang Syne" as the calendar turns.

I am Babe Ruth and the World Series. I am 110,000 schools and colleges and 330,000 churches where my people worship God as they think best. I am a ballot dropped into a box, the roar of a crowd in a stadium, and the voice of a choir in a cathedral. I am an editorial in a newspaper and a letter to a congressman.

I am Eli Whitney and Stephen Foster. I am Tom Edison, Albert Einstein and Billy Graham. I am Horace Greeley, Will Rogers and the Wright brothers. I am George Washington Carver, Jonas Salk and Martin Luther King, Jr. I am Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman and Thomas Paine.

Yes, I am the nation, and these are the things that I am. I was conceived in freedom and, God willing, in freedom I will spend the rest of my days.

May I possess always the integrity, the courage and the strength to keep myself unshackled, to remain a citadel of freedom and a beacon of hope to the world.

- Otto Whittaker

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God Bless America on her birthday.
God Bless America!