J.R. Johnson

Let's go USA! Photo from Fort McHenry National Monument in #Maryland by John Chapman.

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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick

And also:

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
— Erma Bombeck