In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
The Church Pennant is the only flag allowed by law to fly above the American flag in the Navy. Only during religious services conducted by Navy chaplains at sea for Navy personnel.
Libs will be triggered in 3,2..
WATCH: 98-year-old D-Day veteran Sgt. William Pekrul said to President Donald Trump: "With President Trump back as Commander in Chief, I would go back and re-enlist today and I would storm whatever beach my country needs me to."
America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.
The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.
Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.
Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.
Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.
These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.
So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.
114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.
This might be President Trump's finest moment of all time.
"We must never forget there is no American freedom without American culture and there is no American founding without the American people.
"A constitution is only as strong as the people and the culture responsible for upholding it."
"the United States of America will forever be the land of free men and women, and we will never, ever fail."
"Above all, Americans love freedom. We cherish independence, and we know that we are the heirs to the most beautiful land"
"In America, we do not need anyone's permission to say what we think and to live as we please, to worship as we choose, or to keep and bear arms."
This is the most important 15 second video you will see. President Trump just gave everyone chills:
At 250 Years America has the:
- “Oldest Republican on Earth”
- “Freest people on Earth”
- “Most righteous AND enduring Constitution on earth”
- “Strongest and most powerful county on Earth”
LIBERAL’S CAN’T STAND THIS 🔥
HAPPY 250TH BIRTHDAY AMERICA!! 🎉🎆
Tokyo Bay is going INSANE tonight!!
A samurai and President Trump just shook hands in the SKY above Rainbow Bridge!!
Made of pure light!!
The whole crowd is screaming!!
Phones flashing everywhere!!
Japan came to PARTY with you tonight!!
This is what real allies look like!! 🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵
God bless the USA!! God bless Japan!!
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Possibly Trump’s greatest speech yet:
“You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. You can be a Communist, or you can be a Patriot. You cannot be both.”
Inject this into me veins!
There are a number of videos, movies, poems, speeches, and songs that I ruminate on Indepence Season. This is among my favorites.
I would encourage you to take 3 minutes where you will not be interrupted. Turn this up comfortably loud. Slow down and listen to this.
Brought my camera to USA World Cup @ Levi’s Stadium, at the risk of them not letting it in, because I was desperate to capture the essence of this moment.
I was lucky enough as a kid to travel to Europe a couple of times when I was a kid. And I was lucky enough for those times to be synced up with the World Cup.
While I had minimal interest in soccer prior, it was when I discovered how deeply passionate the world was about the game during the tournament that completely changed my perspective. I had at that point made it a bucket list item to attend a game at the World Cup.
Yesterday I was able to make that dream come true.
What I didn’t realize was how cathartic this moment would be in the context of our nation. A unification of a spirit that completely transcended politics and embraced a solidarity of belonging.
The world will keep turning. The problems that plague us do not take a day off. But for a few hours in a stadium filled with stars, stripes, and drums, we were able to believe in a team fighting in front of the whole world; shouting “USA” at the top of our lungs.
For now we live to play another game and no matter how deep our run goes I am grateful to be steeped in a moment where we can all enjoy the company of some neighborly smiles and John Denver.
A spectacular light show—a gift from France—took place at the Statue of Liberty ahead of America’s 250th birthday.
“The Statue of Liberty will be revealed to the public as never before, in a production designed to amplify its symbolic and emotional power,” the French consulate said, adding the light show would showcase “France’s excellence through its technology and its artists.”
“Our friendship goes back 250 years; it remains very strong, it is deep, and that is why we wanted to do something memorable,” France’s consul in NY, Cedrik Fouriscot said.
(🎥: secret_nyc, Instagram)