Celebrate Freedom!Posted by Chief Instructor Joseph Dearman Learn More About The Sanchin-Ryu Dojo> or Join Today! Fireworks overhead, the smell of the grill, the sound of children playing, what a memorable time of year! From the Sanchin-Ryu family to yours, have a safe, happy and healthy Independence day. May time spent in celebration of freedom lead you inwards, to be grateful for the very freedom we celebrate today. Freedom is empowerment! Go forward today with a spirit of total empowerment and create a wonderful second half to your 2007!
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Happy 4th of July, FROM CANADA (Im in Canada visiting family)
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 bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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All I can say as a former Marine is OOrah!!!
It’s good to see so many in support of what our boys are doing for our country.
Like my Seargent always said. All Americans want freedom, but only you have to pay for it.
God bless those paying for our freedom today.