HAPPY 245th BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
HAPPY 4th OF JULY!
However you choose to say it, July 4th/Independence Day is a day for friends and family. It's an opportunity to celebrate all the things that make our nation such a special place. It's a time to appreciate our freedoms and way of life. It's also a day to express gratitude for the sacrifices of so many to ensure those freedoms that we have enjoyed for 245 years.
Today, America's birthday is a birthday shared by each and every American!
"No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July."
Mac Thornberry
"I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true."
Wendell Willkie
"One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America, and then work."
Georgia O'Keefe
Lyrics To American Child
I was ten I was thin I was playing first base
With a second hand glove and dirt on my face
In nowhere Virginia who'd ever figure
That kid in the yard would go very far
Just an old beat up upright that played out of tune
Now I'm singing and living the life that I love
And when I count my blessings I thank god I was
An American child
'Cause dreams can grow wild
Born inside an American child
And she's into my heart as deep as it goes
With a promise that's more than just someone's last name
Anyone's equal, in late August came
An American child
My Grandfather would have been 80 today
But in '45 he fell down beside
An American child
'Cause dreams can grow wild
Born inside an American child
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