“Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!”*

by chuckofish

It’s our nation’s birthday. So celebrate appropriately. Drink a beer…

…watch a parade…

…or a baseball game…

…or a John Wayne movie…

…or some movie that demonstrates how, yes, Americans are exceptional…

…wear red, white and blue…

…get out into the Great Outdoors even if it is just sitting on your patio drinking that Yuengling! Smell the pine in your nostrils!

And, by God, be thankful you live in this country. (As the Madcaps say, “You could be living in Venezuela!”)

*Frances Scott Key

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto – “In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.