God Bless America!

Happy 4th of July!

God bless our military,

who are protecting our country for our freedom.

Thanks to them, and their many sacrifices,

we can not only celebrate on the 4th of July,

but every single day we are blessed with.

Love these lyrics of the Martina McBride song..

"Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today
Is a day of reckoning.
Let the weak be strong,let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay
It's Independence Day."

And I also love this poem I can acrossed a few years back,

in which I read every 4th of July..

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.

 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.

 I thought about a graveyard at the bottom of the sea.
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.

No, freedom isn't free.

Enjoy Your Freedom
and
God Bless Our Troops!