For all these and other freedoms that you have fought and died to protect...
Thank you that I can worship in any way I please
Thank you that I can gather with others to protest
Thank you that I can vote
Thank you that I have the right to home school my children
Thank you that I can own a gun
Thank you that I can travel and visit the world
Thank you that I can get my day of justice in court
Thank you that I own the land on which I garden
Most of all thank you that when I tuck my children in at night I know that you are and have always been out there keeping us safe from those that wish us harm.
Note: These photos are of an antique flag (45 stars) that hangs in our living room, hanging a flag indoors is a wonderful way to introduce your kids to national history, love of country, and civic pride.
When Freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air.
She tore the azure robe of night
And set the stars of glory there.
Joseph Rodman Drake: The American Flag