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Kona Sunset

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This is more of a Memorial Day,
rather than an Independence Day, poem;
but, in these times, it seems appropriate:

For The Fallen (excerpt)
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

–Laurence Binyon

And this one as well:

America the Beautiful (excerpts)
words by Katharine Lee Bates

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man’s avail
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!

Enough solemnity.
Time for ice cream and fireworks!

HAVE A GREAT
INDEPENDENCE DAY
EVERYONE

Waikiki Sunset

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