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On completion of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin left the
He was greeted on the steps by a reporter from a local newspaper who asked him, Ben, what have you brought?
Ben Franklin looked him directly in the eye and said this, A republic, if you can keep it.
Well, folks, the Republic may be hanging by a thread today, but as of Sunday, it will be 217 years old.
Happy Birthday, United States of America!
And a special salute to all those gallant men and women who have served in the armed forces of this great nation
and who have helped us, by their sacrifice, to maintain our freedoms.
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We salute all those who have given their lives during the entire history of this country
so that we may celebrate 217 years of freedom.
We salute all those who have given their lives during the entire history of this country
so that we may celebrate 217 years of freedom.
We salute all those who have given their lives during the entire history of this country
so that we may celebrate 217 years of freedom.
We salute all those who have given their lives during the entire history of this country
so that we may celebrate 217 years of freedom.
We salute all those who have given their lives during the entire history of this country
so that we may celebrate 217 years of freedom.
We salute all those who have given their lives during the entire history of this country
so that we may celebrate 217 years of freedom.
We salute all those who have given their lives during the entire history of this country
so that we may celebrate 217 years of freedom.
We salute all those who have given their lives during the entire history of this country
so that we may celebrate 217 years of freedom.
We salute all those who have given their lives during the entire history of this country
so that we may celebrate 217 years of freedom.
We salute all those who have given their lives during the entire history of this country
so that we may celebrate 217 years of freedom.
We salute all those who have given their lives during the entire history of this country
so that we may celebrate 217 years of freedom.
We salute all those who have given their lives during the entire history of this country
so that we may celebrate 217 years of freedom.
We salute all those who have given their lives during the entire history of this country
so that we may celebrate 217 years of freedom.
So let's celebrate 217 years of freedom.
Abraham Lincoln once said at the height of the Civil War, If I could not laugh, I would surely die.
Abraham Oaks once said at the height of the Civil War, If I could not laugh, I would surely die.
So let's celebrate 217 years of freedom.
My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is coming now, the vicious weather breaks the plans of the Lord.
He has loosed the veil of my being on this terrible victory.
He is coming now, the vicious weather breaks the plans of the Lord.
Glory to the Father, Glory to the Son, Glory to the Holy Ghost.
Glory to the Father, Glory to the Son, Glory to the Holy Ghost.
He is coming now, the vicious weather breaks the plans of the Lord.
He has loosed the veil of my being on this terrible victory.
He is coming now, the vicious weather breaks the plans of the Lord.
Glory to the Father, Glory to the Son, Glory to the Holy Ghost.
Glory to the Father, Glory to the Son, Glory to the Holy Ghost.
In the beauty of the living light of the Lord.
the sea.
With the glory in his footstool, let that figure of you and me
have the eye to make it holy, and the sight to make it free.
While all is marching on.
So let the people sing, let the people sing.
Let the people sing.
The Civil War was fought over states' rights.
It pitted brother against brother, and established the strength of the Union.
the South suffered terribly, and an entire culture disappeared, that to this day is romanticized
by those of both the North and the South, and is best demonstrated by the feelings evoked
when you listen to this song.
Look away.
Dixie Hill.
Yeah, Dixie Hill.
Where I was born.
Early on one foggy morning.
Look away.
Look away.
So go ahead and kick it.
Oh, I wish I hadn't kicked it.
Away, away, but in this dream I'm now taking my best to live and die in this dream.
in decree. Oh, cut the rain. Oh, take them down in decree.
Oh, cut the rain. Oh, take them down in decree.
Oh, rain down, oh, rain down, oh rain down down in decree.
Oh, rain down.
More Americans died in the Civil War than in all the other wars combined that this country has fought.
After the war, those who could walk or crawl were wounded, and those who were lucky, those who had stood in the lines of battle, had not received a wound.
All went streaming home.
Many found that they had no home left and became wanderers.
Some turned west and built new homes and new states.
But the most important thing was that the process of healing and rebuilding had begun, and in some areas of this great nation continues even unto this day.
It's time for our break, folks.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back after this very short pause.
Thank you for joining us.
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In 1936, Marguerite Miller was upset. It seemed no one really knew who wrote those words dear to the heart of
every American. She determined to find out and let all Americans know. Her initial research led her to the name of
Frank Bellamy. He had submitted the words in a great deal of content in 1896 as a 12 year old in Sanders. But
checking further, she found that Frank had lifted those words from a 19th century magazine called Youth's Companion.
And there, the publisher, James Upham, was credited for the literary piece.
But a citizens' committee from Rome, New York, said it couldn't be the Boston publisher, because their pastor had written the essay after leaving his children to work on the editorial staff of Youth's Companion.
The pastor's name?
Reverend Frank Spello.
Marguerite was dumbfounded.
If this news was correct, Then Bellamy worked on the staff of the same magazine from which he supposedly plagiarized the words to win his contract, in 1896, as a 12-year-old.
Fantastic.
She sought it through her evidence.
Bellamy was born in Kansas.
No, he was born in New York.
He died in Colorado in 1915, but he was seen in Florida in 1929.
He either had had a double life, or there had been two Frank Bellamys.
One, a Kansas schoolboy who filtered the words for his contest.
The other, a minister from New York who worked on a national magazine.
You see, in 1892, President Benjamin Harrison wanted a nationwide celebration honoring the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America.
The Reverend Francis Johnson was commissioned by Houston County to write appropriate words for the occasion.
And on October 12, 1892, ten million schoolchildren simultaneously recited his tribute, and we've been repeating it ever since.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for
for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
With liberty and justice for all.
I, me, an individual, a committee of one, dedicate all I have to give without self-pity,
my love and my devotion to the flag, a symbol of freedom, the sovereignty of the individual,
and equality of rights.
Happy United!
That means we've all come together.
Fifty individual communities that have united into fifty great states.
And to the Republic of the States.
In which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern for the people.
One nation.
That's why we call it the Union.
Indivisible.
Incapable of being divided.
With liberty.
Now that's freedom, to live one's own life without threats or fear.
And you've got this.
What's the quality of being worthy of others?
For all.
Freedom is everybody's dignity.
In 1954, two more words were added to the pledge.
Understand.
they may be the most important of all.
I said, don't listen to the plan, and don't be caught up for a wishful plan.
I said, don't listen to the plan, and don't be caught up for a wishful plan.
America is made up of many different people and many, many different forms of expression.
Americans are also famous for the many different ways that they express their love for this
they express their love for this country.
country.
So, let's take a look.
America is made up of many different people and many, many Americans are also famous for the many different ways that
I'm going to play a little bit of that.
She's pretty good, yeah.
Well, this is where Am I fated to be I'm a little bit weary, crazy and a little hurt, I think I
might be a angel, but I ain't no bad guy. Oh yes.
Rock and roll.
the different faces of this country, what helped to make this nation great, and they're
reflected in the cities, in the states, on the street corners, and in the country.
Thank you.
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I'm going to go ahead and get started.
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America, America, the free and the home of the brave.
America, America, and the people love.
There's a song in the dust of a country road on the way he comes to call.
And it sings in the farms and the factory towns, and you really think there'd be no song at all.
And the woods are the worst of our battle-scarred, and they rustle down in years.
And the name of the song is the name of the dream, and it still is to our ears.
America!
America, and the dream goes on.
America, America, and the dream goes on.
Every weed on the courthouse, all the love you say,
make us dream.
We spend the morning in, but the way we get, the closer we get to the best we can be.
Oh, that old time that's forgotten the world, all the brothers and the cops,
They released the shield and the stock, all the smoke and the pack, and still the cops,
America, America, and we are one.
We are gathered on the points of America, and the government's on its way,
We say thank you and we cry, all out America, We're telling you the reason and truth, and even the Lord
God is with you, America, America, and we are one.
We are the dust of a country, the gold and the silver, and those we call home,
And the things in the farm and the factory house, and the children in the city,
No star on that home.
And the birds on the birds of the farm, the birds of the birds and the crickles that we sing,
And the name of the song is the name of the beautiful nation we're in,
America, America, and we are one.
It's a cause of America, and it's a cause of glory, And the way we fight is all a cause of America,
It's a cause of the way it's all been done, and it's happy on the wing,
America, America.
The horses are changing form to fame, and it's so sweet to see.
We sing this song as the music is calling to him, His love for the rain begins.
America, America, the rain of love.
The rain of love.
The rain of love.
Oh, I love this country more than I could possibly ever express.
Happy birthday, United States of America.
You know, it's really the birthday of the Declaration of Independence, which was the first legal document establishing this as a nation.
Every home in America should have a copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and all the amendments thereof hanging on the wall.
It should be taught to every child from the time that they first begin to speak and understand words, and it should be carried on throughout their life.
We lose track of our roots, our traditions, what this country means, the precepts and principles upon which it was founded, lose our souls, we lose everything. This country is the sum
total of all man's efforts throughout the history of the world to be free, to be responsible, to
walk in a divine state of grace, a king in his own right, with a government as his chattel
servant.
Most Americans have forgotten that, that prior to the founding of this country, no people in the history of the world had ever, ever truly been free.
Everyone had always belonged to someone else, or had been indentured to someone else, or had just been an outright slave.
You see, before this country was founded, there were no republics, there were no democracies, and even in the ancient Republic of Rome, the Roman Empire, men were not free.
You can read whatever you want that says they were, but you can't read what they were.
All constitutional rights have been suspended.
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