Salute Your Flag!

Last night my dad and I went to a Los Angeles Dodgers exhibition game against the Angels at Dodger Stadium. Well, as the announcer asked all to rise and remove their caps for the singing of the national anthem by some lady, I looked to the huge waving flag in center field. As I put [...]

If I Die Before You Wake…

I just watched this video and am wiping tears out of my eyes. This is all too true. I love these soldiers and they deserve our respect and support for all they are going through.
God bless America and God bless these soldiers!

Flags of our Fathers-Part 2

As I said in my last post about Flags of our Fathers, I found this great story in the book so I thought I’d post about it. It reads:
And at his last stop on the island, at the high seawall the Marines had to surmount to get onto Tarawa, Howlin’ Mad (a Marine leader) saw [...]

Two New Books

Well, as I mentioned on my personal blog, my family and I came to Santa Barbara for a few days. We drove up past Santa Barbara to a town called Solvang. Its an old German/Dutch town with a bunch of little cultural shops and stuff. It was really neat.
Well, of course as we were driving [...]

Flags of Our Fathers

This Christmas I spent numerous hours in several bookstores across the country. On my way to Tennessee for the holiday, I stopped in many airports. One was Cincinnati. That was the nicest airport I’ve been in. It was very clean and not crowded at all. But the best part was the Borders bookstore they had [...]

Why I Started This Blog

Why start another blog when I already have one? Well, lately I have been posting alot about how I love America. I met a guy named Chris a little over a month ago who is in the Navy and serves on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. They are deployed over in the Arabian Sea right [...]

Favorite Patriotic Song

God Bless the USA
by Lee Greenwood
 
If tomorrow all the things were gone,
I’d worked for all my life.
And I had to start again,
with just my children and my wife.
I’d thank my lucky stars,
to be livin here today.
‘Cause the flag still stands for freedom,
and they can’t take that away.
And I’m proud to be an American,
where [...]