Our Flag

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.

I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln



Memorial Day

It is important that we honor those who serve and protect us.

And 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. ~  Lee Greenwood

For love of country

they accepted death. ~ James A. Garfield

Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory,

nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds,

yet will their remembrance be as lasting

as the land they honored. ~ Daniel Webster

With the tears a Land hath shed

Their graves should ever be green. ~ Thomas B. Aldrich

And they who for their country die

shall fill an honored grave,

for glory lights the soldiers' tomb

and beauty weeps the brave. ~ Joseph Drake

But the freedom that they fought for,

and the country grand they wrought for,

is their monument today and for aye. ~ Thomas Dunn English

Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes-

Remember there is an army of defense and advance

that never dies and never surrenders,

but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources

of the American spirit and from

the generations of American youth. ~ W.J. Cameron

Never Forget, Ever Honor.