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FIREWORKS SAFETY
According to PREVENT BLINDNESS AMERICA, nearly 13,000 fireworks victims keep hospitals busy every year. More than half of those injured are children. Fireworks not only injure users, but also 40 percent of fireworks mishaps injure bystanders.
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Interesting article from CNNMoney.com
Dark skies: No 4th of July fireworks here
Thanks to the ongoing recession, more than 30 cities will be dim this Independence Day, unable to afford fireworks displays. Here are seven of the unfortunate.
No Fourth of July Fireworks
Dark skies: No 4th of July fireworks here
Thanks to the ongoing recession, more than 30 cities will be dim this Independence Day, unable to afford fireworks displays. Here are seven of the unfortunate.
No Fourth of July Fireworks
OUR HOMETOWN PARADE
Abraham Lincoln Came
The statue of liberty was able to attend.
And the Pink Suitcase Sisters strutted down the parade route Pink Suitecase Sisters
My grandchildren found a great use for those political stickers.
Those who continue to fight for and defend our freedom came.
What would a parade be with a Shriner's Clown?
In the end, before the horses and the street sweepers -- a tribute to those who paved the way for America.
"THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER"
Francis Scott Key
20 September 1814
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, through 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, now conceals, now 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.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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