It is a great day. When I was a kid every house had a cast iron flag holder on the porch, and every house would fly the flag on this day, Memorial Day and so on. You don't see that anymore in towns. Quite the shame. We also called today "The Forth of July", and often just "The Forth". We all knew what it meant, and those terms of endearment, spoken by the grateful children of our nation, were never taken as disrespectful.

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Of the Troops & For the Troops