On july 4th, the US celebrates the July 4, the day in 1776 the US adopted the Declaration of Independence.
Break out the sparklers, cake, watermelon, BBQ, and fireworks! It’s time to celebrate!
US citizens celebrate our birthday as a nation on July 4, the day our founding fathers adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and declared our independence from England.
July 4, a federal holiday, has been a day of national celebration that is celebrated with fireworks, picnics, and displays of the red, white, and blue. Flags, bunting, and other colorful displays remind us that patriotic symbolism is enduring.
Viva Cuba added bunting to the garden this week to commemorate our nation's birthday.
Genifer Capes' photo of t Brummet's Pyrotechnics shows why Americans love their fireworks when they light up the sky.
As we get closer to the holiday, more and more displays of the holiday appear, and they aren’t limited to the flying of the flags. Americans show ingenuity in ways to display the red, white, and blue. We see displays on the fourth and throughout the year that remind of the “broad stripes and bright stars.”
Many businesses incorporate the flag and its related sentiments at their businesses year round…
This business shows its colors 24/7/365.
Some businesses use a simple window decoration to express their sentiments.
This painting has been a permanent display in Cuba since 9/11.
Organizations show their patriotism…
These veterans posed at Viva Cuba's Gold Star Boys mural during a bus tour.
The Cuba History Museum's military exhibit shows our colors and reminds us of the sacrifices of our soldiers.
Community support raised the funds for this Veterans Memorial. A wreath commemorates the sacrifice of area veterans.
On Memorial Day, area Veterans Organizations held a flag ceremony.
Others display patriotic colors and symbols at their homes…
This historic home shows its flag.
A Crawford County country home decorates for the holiday.
And some express their patriotism in more personal ways…
These spyder riders show their colors
The fair parade brings out its share of patriotism.
Coming or going. this truck shows the colors.
The Star Spangled Banner
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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