Showing posts with label liberty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label liberty. Show all posts

Monday, July 10, 2023

Flares Of Freedom ...

 

“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.”

    ~ from the inspiring Inaugural Address of

          President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

              ~ 1917 ~1963

 ~ 35th President of the United States of America

               ~ 1960 ~1963

             & U.S. Navy veteran

The birth of America & its freedom is celebrated with vivid flares of purple & gold flashing across the summer night sky by the Fourth of July fireworks set off from J. Birney Crum Stadium, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Happy Birthday, America! Bravo!

How wonderful it would be to have fireworks ~ and the fire of patriotism ~ in our hearts every day!

Monday, July 5, 2021

Liberty Lights Up ...

“I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.

You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.”

    ~ from “Had a Declaration,” letter from

 John Adams to Abigail Adams

       ~ July 3, 1776

       ~ John Adams

        ~ 1735 ~ 1826

  ~American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second   President of the United States of America 1797 ~ 1801

 

Liberty’s rays of ravishing light and glory light up the summer night sky during the 2021 Fourth of July Fireworks set off from J. Birney Crum Stadium, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

 

Happy 245th Birthday America!

 

How wonderful it would be to have fireworks – and the fire of patriotism – in our hearts every day!


 

Sunday, July 7, 2019

The Fire Of Freedom ...


“I believe with all my heart that standing up for America means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land.”
                ~ Ronald Reagan
                  ~ 1911-2004
      ~40th President of the
              United States of America
                          ~ 1981-1989
The fire of freedom explodes in gold tones in the night sky at the 2019 Fourth of July Fireworks set off from J. Birney Crum Stadium, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

How wonderful it would be to have fireworks – and the fire of patriotism – in our hearts every day!