Happy 4th Everyone !!!

csp

Wishing you all a happy and safe 4th of July weekend!!







by Francis Scott Key
20 September 1814

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 rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?





On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.





And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.





Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!



Hugs,
Carrie

Anonymous

What a well done presentation Carrie!! Your posts always have a good message and your graphics are beautiful.

I don't celebrate July 4th, I celebrate today, but it's the same message in both countries ~

let freedom ring.

Happy and safe to all my new American friends!

And Happy and safe to all my new Canadian friends!

beachcottage

I agree with Sherry
thank you Carrie
you bring so much
to the boards

Joining Carrie
and Sherry
with a thankful
heart for freedom

Happy 4th
wonderful beautiful
sisters ..
xoxo
Patti

"Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing,
Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
... it's Independence Day."
~Martina McBride

susanmcm

Thanks Carrie!
I am also a proud American and heading for fireworks tonite. woohoo!!