Salute to America

Salute to America

God Bless America by Kate Smith

Why I Love Her by John Wayne

National Emblem March by Bob Sharples

Your a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith by Frank Sinatra

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)
by The Spirit of Freedom Singers

The People by John Wayne

Semper Fidelis by Bob Sharples

This Land Is Your Land by Bing Crosby

America the Beautiful by Ray Charles

The House I Live by Frank Sinatra

Washington Post March
by Concert Arts Symphonic Band

Remember Me by our own Bob Reynolds

Star Spangled Banner by Sandi Patty
(which is available at The Living Word Bookstore in Sarasota)

Taps by John Wayne

National Emblem March by Felix Slatkin

Pledge of Allegiance by Red Skelton

God Bless The USA by Lee Greenwood

THE AMERICAN FLAG

Robert Ball, A Listener of WGUL

The American flag is a symbol of this great nation, to the American people it is a symbol of their strength, of their endurance, and of their will.

Their strength has been woven into the flag by the sacrifices of our men and women who have given their lives in combat. Their endurance has been sown into the flag by those left at home to endure the pain and loss of a son, a daughter, or a loved one. Their will has been weaved into the flag by ordinary people who are willing to step forward in the face of tragedy, terror, and danger, to become your nations heroes.

If terrorist or a nation think they can bring this country to it’s knees by destroying our buildings and monuments, they our mistaken! For these structures are only built by steel, mortar and stone. The American flag has been created with a much stronger material. For it is not a nation of just one people, it is a people of many nations, who have come together from all over the world to be intertwined so deep into it’s fabric that it will never be destroyed, and as long as one flag remains flying over this country it will never, never be defeated.

Gordon Sinclair
News Editor - Canada
This was written in 1976

This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan, and to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions of dollars in debt. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there, I saw it.

When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the US that hurries in to help. this spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall plan and the Truman Policy pumped in billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now the newspapers in these countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the US dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane equal to the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10! If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technology and you get radios. You talk about German technology and you get automobiles. You talk about American technology and you find men on the moon. Not once, but several times, and safely home again. You talk about scandals and Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.

When the railways of France, Germany, and India were breaking down with age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania railroad and New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Our neighbors have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada isn't one of these lands.

Stand Proud America!

As a schoolboy, one of Red Skelton's teachers explained the words
and meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance to his class.
Skelton later wrote down, and eventually recorded, his recollection of this lecture.
It is followed by an observation of his own.

I - - Me; an individual; a committee of one.
Pledge - - Dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self-pity.
Allegiance - - My love and my devotion.
To the Flag - - Our standard; Old Glory; a symbol of Freedom; wherever she waves there is respect, because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts, Freedom is everybody's job.
United - - That means that we have all come together.
States of America - - Individual communities that have united into forty-eight great states. Forty-eight individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose. All divided with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose, and that is love for country.
And to the Republic - - a state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people; and it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people.
For which it stands
One Nation - meaning, so blessed by God.
Indivisible - - Incapable of being divided.
With Liberty - - Which is Freedom; the right of power to live one's own life, without threats, fear, or some sort of retaliation.
And Justice - - The principle, or qualities, of dealing fairly with others.
For All - which means, boys and girls, it's as much your country as it is mine.

And now, boys and girls, let me hear you recite the Pledge of Allegiance:
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands;
one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country,
and two words have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance: Under God.
Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer,
and that would be eliminated from schools, too?
--Red Skelton