Happy 4th of July From Your Friends at B&B

[Blue_2]

Happy Independence Day!

A personal thanks to the Veterans. I salute you for safeguarding the freedom I enjoy every day.

 

[Uncle Erik]

Happy Fourth of July, everyone! Am very much looking forward to getting into the fireworks just about 24 hours from now!

 

[SRock]

Independence Day SOTD (Clicky):

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

 

[PanchoVilla]

Happy Birthday to my beloved USA. God bless our country.

 

[grump]

Wishing all in our great community,

A Happy and Safe 4th of July.

 

[gearchow]

People have told me that various scriptures from the bible or koran or certain gospel music brings tears to their eyes, but every bit of that leaves me clear eyed and slightly bored. But just reading this makes me weepy. It's kind of embarrassing, I usually have to turn my head away. It has nothing to do with Independence Day, the War of 1812 just a further step in Independence, a path that we still must tread, but it is - I think - the essence of Independence.

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, thru 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, half conceals, half 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 washed out their foul footsteps' 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.

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

-jim

 

[Matt R.]

Happy 4th!

 

[Mr. O]

 

[Pumpkin]

Happy 4th of July from your former landlords....you've not made too bad a job of Independence so far!

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghz4_kikLkE[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Eman]

Happy 4th of July to the United States of America. While I currently reside a long way from there, I love the USA. I was born in Cuba, and had to flee to the United States with my family at a young age on account of the Castro government. I will always be grateful to the great American people who opened the doors of this wonderful nation, and allowed us to rebuild our lives.

An extra special thank you to all of our men and women in uniform, and all of the veterans out there. Thomas Jefferson once said: "The tree of liberty must, from time to time, be watered with the blood of patriots". It is and has been through the willingness of so many who have served that we have a great nation. While I may live in Israel now, a part of my heart will forever be painted red, white and blue. God bless America!

Well said my friend, we must all remember Freedom is not Free.

 

[filedog]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 

[SRock]