Hello Beautiful People,
Memorial Day is a day to be thankful for the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.
We often hear, is it okay to say Happy Memorial Day?
According to Flags of Valor, of course, it is okay to say “Happy Memorial Day” because you are coming from a sincere heart of gratitude for the generations who provided that sacrifice before.
JT and hubby at Soldiers Memorial Military Museum in Saint Louis.
Photo by:Laurentiu-ordache
Memorial Day is meant to be a day of remembrance. It is not about barbecues and having the day off. Please take time today to reflect on the men and women who served for the United States in war and paid the ultimate sacrifice to keep us safe. “Freedom is not free.”
Photo by: Ludovic-Gauthier
The complete version of “The Star-Spangled Banner”
National Museum Of American History
The Star-Spangled Banner
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s 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 in 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 wash’d 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.
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.
Follow!