Showing posts with label United States of America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States of America. Show all posts

Saturday, June 2, 2012

The United States of America State Flags

We are The United States of America.  Do you know what your state flag looks like?

I tried to compile the fifty state flags here.  Hopefully, I got them all.  If you notice something incorrect, please let me know, so I can get the proper one in place.  Thanks!



a short video to accompany the US flags
is here on youtube.

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