Hope your day is a good one - stay safe! I also hope that your fireworks viewing is better than ours was. The YMCA in Mooresville puts on a fireworks display every year. This year they chose to do it on July 3. Not sure why but .... they didn't ask me. The weather has been pretty bad here all week - raining every day and Wednesday was no different. It rained off and on all day. We were going to enjoy watching the fireworks from my mom's church. They were also planning on having an ice cream social. But with the rain, they canceled the social. The rain let up a little bit about 8 so we drove to Mooresville at 9 to watch the fireworks with Mom and Angela. They were supposed to start at 9:30 but .... they started them early! So we got to see about 10 minutes of the fireworks! Oh well, better luck next year!
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I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG,
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,
AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS,
ONE NATION UNDER GOD,
INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
For all of our other military personnel, where ever they may be.
Please support all of the troops defending our Country.
And God Bless our Military who are protecting our Country for our Freedom.
Thanks to them, and their sacrifices, we can celebrate the 4th of July.
We must never forget who gets the credit for the freedoms we have, and to them we should be eternally grateful.
I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform;
so young, so tall, so proud.
With hair cut square and eyes alert,
he'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil;
how many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
NO, FREEDOM ISN'T FREE !
I heard the sound of Taps one night,
when everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant 'Amen.'
When a flag had draped a coffin
of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
of the mothers and the wives,
of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
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