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Independence Day |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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Independence Day to me, by birth brought by blood’s worth for that I bear deep-rooted emotion can’t hear hymn or anthem’s devotion that I don’t tear up inside and unashamed they well then slide down my face awesome grace this feel this….feel…. my throat constricts as the click of one and twenty guns salute then the pride that resides inside emotes at words wrote We the People you, and I then when red, white, blue in breeze, fly or the missing man formation streams overhead for the missing or the dead chills run through my spirit weeps somewhere inside is the feeling deep to me, by birth this land, this earth brought by those, who lived, and died blood’s worth given, for U.S. pride Independence Day the Flag Flies and past spirits rest, inside |
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Trillium 
since 2001-03-09
Posts 12098Idaho, USA |
A wonderful expression of the emotions so many of us feel on the 4th but don't have the words to express! Betty Lou Hebert |
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walker Member Elite
since 2001-02-11
Posts 2240Florida |
America the beautiful and your poem a great tribute to our freedom! Thanks for sharing. |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Karilea~ Geeeeeezzzzzz ... talk about 'tearing up' and here I go ! Is this a great country or what ? GREAT that's WHAT ! ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
you have touched me with this one, Karilea. Thank you... |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Hey kids...I only put out there, what is in "here"...I swear, don't expect me to sing the National Anthem, or Pledge the Allegiance, or hum along to the Star Spangled Banner, without hearing the catch in my throat, or to see the tears in my eyes...and I've ALWAYS been this way... thank you for reading... |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
 Long may she furl...  [This message has been edited by Nan (edited 07-01-2001).] |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Happy Independence Day to you and yours, and you did your country proud indeed with this emotional writing. If I have made you smile today, then I have done my job! ~* Mysteria *~ |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
Me, too. |
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esclandre Member
since 2001-06-11
Posts 62Northern California |
have to bow a head in response to this... nice, no, gratifying to see people who appreciate these days as ones of sacrifice. the joy is in the recieving of the gifts bestowed upon us by the men and women who made the holiday possible. Esclandre [This message has been edited by esclandre (edited 07-02-2001).] |
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Auguste
since 2000-02-16
Posts 3953By the sea |
Thank you for remembering the brave men and women that advanced the cause of freedom. I salute you. Michael Michael Auguste~ |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
This is beautiful, Sunshine... I share your tearing up at the sound of the anthem or America the Beautiful or the sight of veterans saluting the flag they fought for or... the list goes on and on. Thank you for this superb tribute. |
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