This is how I feel today.
Hot and Sweaty
and Thoughtful
What do you do?
When you have 13 flowergirls all dolled up and ready to go.
And the wedding doesn't start for another 45 minutes????
Why send in the troops of course!
I need some advice
I would really like a book to read that I could sink my teeth into. I've tried several books. But, they've all been unsuccessful. Any ideas are welcome!
What the flag means to me.
It wasn't until a couple weeks ago, when the flag was suddenly gone, I realized that I loved the flag, more specifically that particular flag, flying majestically on top of that particular hill, where it reminds thousands of people every day of their freedom and the great country we live in. I still involuntarily glance up expecting the flag to still be there. It's not. Instead I remind myself that I live in a great country and that the flag still waves from my heart. I thank God for the country I live in, the foundation on which it was laid and the men and women who work and fight to keep America free. Keep the flag flying! And may God Bless the U.S.A.
The Name of Old Glory
I
Old Glory! say, who,
By the ships and the crew,
And the long, blended ranks of the gray and the blue,
Who gave you, Old Glory, the name that you bear
With such pride everywhere
As you cast yourself free to the rapturous air
And leap out full-length, as we're wanting you to?
Who gave you that name, with the ring of the same,
And the honor and fame so becoming to you?
Your stripes stroked in ripples of white and of red,
With your stars at their glittering best overhead
By day or by night
Their delightfulest light
Laughing down from their little square heaven of blue!
Who gave you the name of Old Glory? - say, who
Who gave you the name of Old Glory?
The old banner lifted, and altering then
In vague lisps and whispers fell silent again.
II
Old Glory,--speak out!--we are asking about
How you happened to "favor" a name, so to say,
That sounds so familiar and careless and gay
As we cheer it and shout in our wild breezy way
We-the crowd, every man of us, calling you that
We-Tom, Dick, and Harry-each swinging his hat
And hurrahing "Old Glory!" like you were our kin,
When-Lord!-we all know we're as common as sin!
And yet it just seems like you humor us all
And waft us your thanks, as we hail you and fall
Into line, with you over us, waving us on
Where our glorified, sanctified betters have gone,
And this is the reason we're wanting to know
(And we're wanting it so!
Where our own fathers went we are willing to go.)
Who gave you the name of Old Glory O-ho!
Who gave you the name of Old Glory?
The old flag unfurled with a billowy thrill
For an instant, then wistfully sighed and was still.
III
Old Glory: the story we're wanting to hear
Is what the plain facts of your christening were,
For your name--just to hear it.
Repeat it, and cheer it, 's a tang to the spirit
As salty as a tear;
And seeing you fly, and the boys marching by,
There's a shout in the throat and a blur in the eye
And an aching to live for you always-or die,
If, dying, we still keep you waving on high.
And so, by our love
For you, floating above,
And the sears of all wars and the sorrows thereof,
Who gave you the name of Old Glory, and why
Are we thrilled at the name of Old Glory?
Then the old banner leaped, like a sail in the blast,
And fluttered an audible answer at last.
IV
And it spake, with a shake of the voice, and it said:
By the driven snow-white and the living blood-red
Of my bars, and their heaven of stars overhead
By the symbol conjoined of them all, skyward cast,
As I float from the steeple, or flap at the mast,
Or droop o'er the sod where the long grasses nod,
My name is as old as the glory of God.
...So I came by the name of Old Glory.
by James Whitcomb Riley
On this day
- 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg begins
- 1870 - The United Stated Department of Justice formally comes into existence
- 1881 - World's first international telephone call takes place between St. Stephen, New Brunswick (Canada), and Calais, Maine.
- 1898 - The Battle of San Juan Hill (Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt) was fought in Santiago de Cuba
- 1921 - Communist Party of China was founded
- 1931 - United Airlines begins service as Boeing Air Transport
- 1963 - Zip Codes are introduced for United States Mail.
- 1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman
- 1980 - O Canada offically becomes the national anthem of Canada
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About Me
- Katie
- I am a daughter of God who is striving to do and be all that God has for me. I'm a pretty normal person, kinda goofy at times, but I can be a dear. If I try :) I always try to be happy and I'm never lazy, I've tried, it doesn't agree with me. Once you meet me you'll never want for entertainment :)