You're a Grand Old Flag...

Happy Flag Day, everyone!

I'm sharing some of my favorite photos (taken in our yard, on the Cape, and at my mom & dad's grave), as well as some Old Glory quotations in honor of the day.

"If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties." 

(Henry Ward Beecher)

"Show the flag and let it wave, As a symbol of the brave;

Let it float upon the breeze, As a sign for each who sees

That beneath it, where it rides, Loyalty today abides.

Show the flag and signify, That it wasn't born to die;

Let its colors speak for you, That you still are standing true,

True in sight of God and man, To the work that flag began."

(Edgar Guest)

"Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me!

I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea

To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars,

Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars."

(Henry Van Dyke)

"We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes. 

We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States."

(Theodore Roosevelt.)

"I name thee Old Glory."

(Captain William Driver)

Wishing you all a beautiful week!

This week I'm joining Brenda at Cozy Little House for Tweak It Tuesday
and Cindy at My Romantic Home for Show & Tell Friday.

Donna