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on July 4th Fireworks, Activities and Events ALL AROUND THE UNITED STATES !
Some very patriotic videos - songs and poems to COOL backgrounds! Some OLD, some NEW, some TRADITIONAL, some CONTROVERSIAL... biographies, lyrics... educational and FUN!
Waving the STARS and STRIPES - the AMERICAN FLAG ...
FIREWORKS Fireworks and more Fireworks ...
Picnics will include over 150 million HOT DOGS along with good American Apple PIE and mounds of ICE CREAM!
Waving the STARS and STRIPES - the AMERICAN FLAG ...
FIREWORKS Fireworks and more Fireworks ...
Picnics will include over 150 million HOT DOGS along with good American Apple PIE and mounds of ICE CREAM!
John Wayne / America - Why I Love Her
John Wayne
America, Why I Love Her
America, Why I Love Her
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"America, America,
God shed his grace on thee..."
You ask me Why I Love Her?
Well, give me time and I'll explain. Have you seen a Kansas sunset or an Arizona rain?
Have you drifted on a bayou down Louisiana way?
Have you watched a cold fog drifting over San Francisco Bay?
Have you heard a bobwhite calling in the Carolina pines,
Or heard the bellow of a diesel at the Appalachia mines?
Does the call of Niagara thrill you when you hear her waters roar?
Do you look with awe and wonder at her Massachusetts shore,
Where men who braved a hard new world first stepped on Plymouth's rock?
And do you think of them when you stroll along a New York City dock?
Have you seen a snowflake drifting in the Rockies, way up high?
Have you seen the sun come blazing down from a bright Nevada sky?
Do you hail to the Columbia as she rushes to the sea,
Or bow your head at Gettysburg at our struggle to be free?
Have you seen the mighty Tetons?
Have you watched an eagle soar?
Have you seen the Mississippi roll along Missouri's shore?
Have you felt a chill at Michigan when on a winter's day
Her waters rage along the shore in thunderous display?
Does the word "Aloha" make you warm?
Do you stare in disbelief
When you see the surf come roaring in at Waimea Reef?
From Alaska's cold to the Everglades, from the Rio Grande to Maine,
My heart cries out, my pulse runs fast at the might of her domain.
You ask me Why I Love Her?
I've a million reasons why:
My beautiful America, beneath God's wide, wide sky.
"And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea."
God shed his grace on thee..."
You ask me Why I Love Her?
Well, give me time and I'll explain. Have you seen a Kansas sunset or an Arizona rain?
Have you drifted on a bayou down Louisiana way?
Have you watched a cold fog drifting over San Francisco Bay?
Have you heard a bobwhite calling in the Carolina pines,
Or heard the bellow of a diesel at the Appalachia mines?
Does the call of Niagara thrill you when you hear her waters roar?
Do you look with awe and wonder at her Massachusetts shore,
Where men who braved a hard new world first stepped on Plymouth's rock?
And do you think of them when you stroll along a New York City dock?
Have you seen a snowflake drifting in the Rockies, way up high?
Have you seen the sun come blazing down from a bright Nevada sky?
Do you hail to the Columbia as she rushes to the sea,
Or bow your head at Gettysburg at our struggle to be free?
Have you seen the mighty Tetons?
Have you watched an eagle soar?
Have you seen the Mississippi roll along Missouri's shore?
Have you felt a chill at Michigan when on a winter's day
Her waters rage along the shore in thunderous display?
Does the word "Aloha" make you warm?
Do you stare in disbelief
When you see the surf come roaring in at Waimea Reef?
From Alaska's cold to the Everglades, from the Rio Grande to Maine,
My heart cries out, my pulse runs fast at the might of her domain.
You ask me Why I Love Her?
I've a million reasons why:
My beautiful America, beneath God's wide, wide sky.
"And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea."
The movies Wayne starred in rode the range from out-of-the-money sagebrush quickies to such classics as "Stagecoach", "Red River", "The Searchers" and "The Shootist". He won an Oscar as best actor for another western "True Grit" in 1969. Yet some of the best films he made told stories far from the wilds of the West, such as "The Quiet Man" and "The Long Voyage Home."
For millions of moviegoers who saw him only on the big screen, it was John Wayne the western star that was their hero. Although he had not created the western with its clear-cut conflict between good and bad, right and wrong, but it's almost impossible to mention the word "western" without thinking of "the Duke."
Here is some John Wayne trivia you may not have known:
• He's been honored with a commemorative postage stamp by the US postal service. (April 6 2004)
• He holds the record for the actor with the most leading parts - 142. In all but eleven films he played the leading part.
• His favorite drink was Sauza Commemorativo Tequila and often served it with ice that he had chipped from an iceberg during one of his voyages on his yacht, The Wild Goose.
• He was offered the lead to star in THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967), but went to direct THE GREEN BERETS (1968) instead. Later, the lead role went to Lee Marvin.
• The evening before a shoot he was trying to get some sleep in a Las Vegas hotel. The suite directly below his was that of Frank Sinatra (never a good friend of Wayne) who was having a party. The noise kept Wayne awake and each time he made a complaining phone call it quieted temporarily but each time eventually grew louder. Wayne at last appeared at Sinatra's door and told Frank to stop the noise. A Sinatra bodyguard of Wayne's size approached saying, Nobody talks to Mr. Sinatra that way. Wayne looked at the man, turned as though to leave then backhanded the bodyguard, who fell to the floor where Wayne knocked him out by crashing a chair on top of him. The party noise stopped.
• John Wayne's spoken word RCA Victor album America: Why I Love Her became a suprise best seller and Grammy nominee when it was issued in 1973.
• Although playing the same character as in FORT APACHE (1948), his character is spelt with an extra e at the end of RIO GRANDE (1950).
• In the climactic scene of THE SEARCHERS (1956), he and Natalie Wood ran up the side of a hill in Monument Valley Utah... and come down the other side of the hill in Bronson Park Los Angeles (1,200 miles away!).
For millions of moviegoers who saw him only on the big screen, it was John Wayne the western star that was their hero. Although he had not created the western with its clear-cut conflict between good and bad, right and wrong, but it's almost impossible to mention the word "western" without thinking of "the Duke."
Here is some John Wayne trivia you may not have known:
• He's been honored with a commemorative postage stamp by the US postal service. (April 6 2004)
• He holds the record for the actor with the most leading parts - 142. In all but eleven films he played the leading part.
• His favorite drink was Sauza Commemorativo Tequila and often served it with ice that he had chipped from an iceberg during one of his voyages on his yacht, The Wild Goose.
• He was offered the lead to star in THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967), but went to direct THE GREEN BERETS (1968) instead. Later, the lead role went to Lee Marvin.
• The evening before a shoot he was trying to get some sleep in a Las Vegas hotel. The suite directly below his was that of Frank Sinatra (never a good friend of Wayne) who was having a party. The noise kept Wayne awake and each time he made a complaining phone call it quieted temporarily but each time eventually grew louder. Wayne at last appeared at Sinatra's door and told Frank to stop the noise. A Sinatra bodyguard of Wayne's size approached saying, Nobody talks to Mr. Sinatra that way. Wayne looked at the man, turned as though to leave then backhanded the bodyguard, who fell to the floor where Wayne knocked him out by crashing a chair on top of him. The party noise stopped.
• John Wayne's spoken word RCA Victor album America: Why I Love Her became a suprise best seller and Grammy nominee when it was issued in 1973.
• Although playing the same character as in FORT APACHE (1948), his character is spelt with an extra e at the end of RIO GRANDE (1950).
• In the climactic scene of THE SEARCHERS (1956), he and Natalie Wood ran up the side of a hill in Monument Valley Utah... and come down the other side of the hill in Bronson Park Los Angeles (1,200 miles away!).
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John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset Iowa in 1907. His family was Presbyterian; father Clyde Leonard Morrison was of Scottish descent and the son of a Civil War veteran, while mother Mary Alberta Brown was of Irish descent. Wayne's family moved to Glendale California in 1911 and it was neighbors in Glendale who started calling him "Big Duke" because he never went anywhere without his Airedale Terrier dog, who was Little Duke. He preferred "Duke" to "Marion" and the name stuck for the rest of his life.
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