Showing posts with label Memorial Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memorial Day. Show all posts

Friday, May 25, 2012

National Day of Remembrance, Memorial Day, United States of America

On Memorial Day, America respects their soldiers with a day of Remembrance, but many people may not realize there is also a moment of remembrance at 3:00 p.m., where baseball games halt and train whistles blow to pay tribute to those to died in service to the United States of America.  If you are not participating in a parade or other memorial service, you can still remember those who fought for you.

I received this in an email from autom:
Take a moment to pray.
No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. –John 15:13
and other ideas:
  • Visit cemeteries and place flags or flowers on the graves of our fallen heroes.
  • Visit local memorials.
  • Fly the U.S. Flag at half-staff until noon.
  • Fly the POW/MIA Flag
  • Pledge to aid the widows, widowers, and orphans of our fallen soldiers, and to aid the disabled veterans.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

We are America not 50 shades of Grey

A brief video on America, being family and simple basic American values.
Not 50 shades of grey




Songs courtesy of OneTrueMedia are Bugle Call Assembly and Semper Fidelis

Saturday, May 5, 2012

America, the Beautiful

As we approach Memorial Day in the United States and then the Fourth of July, I begin to start listening to patriotic songs.

A pictorial tribute to Katherine Lee Bates



O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!


 youtube video of The United States of America with state flags









~~~~~~~~~ Here's a youtube rendition with Frank Sinatra


O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine!

O Beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!


Katherine Lee Bates 1913