Happy 241st birthday, America! WOW! What a journey it's been. But let's set aside all our political differences and unrelenting opinions and get down to the important matter of THIS DAY.
We must scramble through closets and drawers to find those 'Red, White & Blue' items and hit the road to parades, cookouts and fireworks. We have a responsibility to hold up our end. After all it takes a lot of folks to consume 150 million hot dogs, 700 million pounds of chicken, 190 million pounds of beef and then wash-it-down with beer, which cost one billion dollars and $568 million dollars worth of wine.
If we're still standing by nightfall, we can sit back in our law chairs, belch and 'ooh and haaa' about $800 million dollars worth of fireworks. (PS. Most of that fireworks purchase money was sent to China).
Today, July 4, 2017, we are all 'Yankee Doodle Dandy's,' Tomorrow its back to the 'back-biting' and name calling led by our 45th President.
Americans: Before we do what we do best, which is overindulge, shall we take a moment and whisper a prayer of remembrance and thanksgiving for all those service men who have 'stood the watch' and guaranteed our frivolous freedoms? And may we especially pause and pray for those families who lost a love one in those missions?
(Touch)
A Yankee Doodle
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