Memorial Day

I can still remember the tears that would well up in my Dad’s eyes if and when he would talk about “the war”.  He served in WWII as a radar man on the aircraft carrier Saratoga.  He was only 21 and had never been outside of his hometown of Omaha, NE.  He was frightened the […]

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Our Star Spangled Banner

The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics By Francis Scott Key 1814 Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the […]

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