Time to Celebrate – Happy 250th Birthday America

We’re in the middle of a patriotic celebration here in America.

Happy 250^th Birthday America!

Speaking of celebrating, there’s a little breakfast place that some friends and I go to almost every week.

It’s a fun time.

We laugh a lot and share life together.

When you go to a friendly place like that, you start to recognize “the regulars.”

The majority of them are elderly men. Sometimes they’re in small groups, while others come in all by themselves, including one in a wheelchair.

My heart breaks for those lone diners. I wonder what their stories are.

I asked the waitress one morning and she said, “He’s a veteran,” and pointing to another man, “He’s a veteran,” and so on.

My mind is already working on some ways my friends and I can honor them.

You know what I find really touching?

It’s to see a veteran in a wheelchair muster up every ounce of strength he has to stand up and salute our American flag when it passes by.

These brave veterans in our military, both men and women, risked life and limb to defend our nation against her enemies.

I “see” them, and hope others do too.

250 Years in the Making – Honoring Our Heritage

There will always be certain factions who will try to drag our great nation through the mud in every way possible.

Those groups may get the attention they are desperate for, but they will never be able to change the fact that America was created and blessed by God.

One Nation Under God.

Below is my absolute favorite version of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” 

In this video, the West Point Glee Club joins the church choir in a rousing rendtion of this beloved song. 

I love to turn my speakers up high for this one!

 

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¹ Featured image of veteran holding American Flag. Own work – AI created.
² The “Battle Hymn of the Republic”. Written by American author and poet, Julia Ward Howe, in 1861. Public domain.