July 4, 1776 - Happy Birthday U.S.A.

Today is my beautiful wife's birthday.  Happy Birthday Barbara.  Tomorrow is the 238th birthday of our nation, the United States of America.  I hope you will celebrate our great experiment in freedom and vow to do all you can to keep our forefathers dream alive.  God Bless America.

           AMERICA

Out of revolution,

the grip of monarch’s rule.

Driven by freedom.

Necessity.

Founded on values

from God’s holy book,

the glue that binds,

in trust,

its varied masses.

America

Through fire of war,

without,

within,

was forged in strength

a strong republic.

America

And though the vision dims

in her prosperity,

she rises to the challenge

when tyrants seek

to quell her voice.

America

Blessed by God,

we must hold those

values close

that bound

our loose knit colonies

in their infancy.

America

Dennis Price