July 4th snaps

I'd like to wish everybody a safe and happy Independence Day weekend. We should always take a moment to remember all the men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country so that we may celebrate times like this. For it is them who truly define the land of the free, and the home of the brave. For today's quote of the day, I will go the patriotic route.

"A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth."

---Henry Ward Beecher