Sound familiar?

We will “keep the home fires burning.” We will attend the spectacularly uncontroversial local parade (homemade floats mounted on wheelbarrows and decorated bicycles and beribboned ponies, mostly of a patriotic theme), listen to a reading of the Declaration of Independence and play games for all ages (including a hammer toss!) following the parade. We will eat hot dogs, and a cake decorated with strawberries, whipped cream, and blueberries (red, white, and blue). We will make lemonade from lemons and sugar and mint sprigs picked that morning, and some of us may drink some beer. We will watch fireworks when it gets dark.

This proud mom adds:

We will give thanks we live here in the USA– and we will pray for the wisdom, safety, and success of our daughter serving in the US Coast Guard, in Louisiana, working on the oil clean-up.