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Let Freedom Ring
The stars rain from above,
Red, blue, and white
Across our land.
From forefathers
To forefathers
The celebration is grand.
It will be brighter
This year
With you by my side.
It will be bigger
This year
Sharing America’s pride.
We believe more,
We cherish what we have.
We are more thankful
For firemen,
And pilots, and a crew
That gave up their lives
So July 4th could be celebrated
By me and with you.
Carol Dee Meeks
Copyright © 2002
In 1831, Captain William Driver, a shipmaster from Salem, Massachusetts, left on one of his many world voyages. Friends presented him with a flag of 24 stars. As the banner opened to the ocean breeze, he exclaimed, "Old Glory." He kept his flag for many years, protecting it during the Civil War, until it was flown over the Tennessee capital. His "Old Glory" became a nickname for all American flags.
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Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
--Thomas Wolfe
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