Thursday, July 4, 2013

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July...to all my friends, followers, familiars...

whos got "Stars and Stripes" Heart and Soul

I am the Nation 
Written by Otto Whittaker and narrated by Johnny Cash




I was born on July 4, 1776, and the Declaration of Independence is my birth certificate.
The bloodlines of the world run in my veins, because I offered freedom to the oppressed.
I am many things and many people.
I am the nation. I am 250 million living souls -- and the ghost of millions who have lived and died for me.
I am Nathan Hale and Paul Revere. I stood at Lexington and fired the shot heard around the world.
I am Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry. I am John Paul Jones, the Green Mountain Boys and Davy Crockett.
I am Lee and Grant and Abe Lincoln.
I remember the Alamo, the Maine and Pearl Harbor. When freedom called, I answered and stayed until it was over, over there.
I left my heroic dead in Flanders Field, on the rock of Corregidor, on the bleak slopes of Korea and in the steaming jungle of Vietnam.
I am the Brooklyn Bridge, the wheat lands of Kansas and the granite hills of Vermont.
I am the coal fields of the Virginias and Pennsylvania, the fertile lands of the West, the Golden Gate and the Grand Canyon.
I am Independence Hall, the Monitor and the Merrimac.
I am big. I sprawl from the Atlantic to the Pacific -- my arms reach out to embrace Alaska and Hawaii.
I am more than five million farms. I am forest, field, mountain and desert. I am quiet villages -- and cities that never sleep.
You can look at me and see Ben Franklin walking down the streets of Philadelphia with his bread loaf under his arm.
You can see Betsy Ross with her needle. You can see the lights of Christmas and hear the strains of "Auld Lang Syne" as the calendar turns.
I am Babe Ruth and the World Series. I am 110,000 schools and colleges and 330,000 churches where my people worship God as they think best.
I am a ballot dropped into a box, the roar of a crowd in a stadium and the voice of a choir in a cathedral.
I am an editorial in a newspaper and a letter to a congressman.
I am Eli Whitney and Stephen Foster. I am Tom Edison, Albert Einstein and Billy Graham. I am Horace Greeley, Will Rogers and the Wright Brothers.
I am George Washington Carver, Jonas Salk and Martin Luther King Jr.
I am Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman and Thomas Paine.
Yes, I am the nation, and these are the things that I am.
I was conceived in freedom and, God willing, in freedom I will spend the rest of my days.
May I possess always the integrity, the courage and the strength to keep myself unshackled,
to remain a citadel of freedom and a beacon of hope to the entire world.
I am the Nation.



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the clip is created by "swaywithme1" from utube 

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8 comments:

Jim, Please contact me as soon as possible. I am newspaper reporter working on a story about some veterans. My e-mail is Thanks.

Mike

Mike! i found your email address, i sent email to you

Hi Jim , just added you to my Links, Thank you for your service.

Hello Jim. I was looking for a 4th of July post for my Facebook cover when I came across your picture and love what was written on it but when, I click on it I was brought to your blog and what I read in your blog makes me love your picture even more. I admired what you wrote and love it very much. I used your picture for my Facebook 4th of July would you please forgive me for not asking your permission before I post it? And thank you. God bless you and may He continue to protect you.
With Christ love to you and your family.
Juliana.

Juliana feel free to use anything from this blog, and also anybody - of course
especially if it is serving good

:)

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