Jewells of Thought

I scrolled through my Friendly TV guide for the day. I had to go all the way down to the Movie channel to find anything pertaining to July 4th. It probably shouldn’t surprise me, but it did. I thought at the very least ‘For Love and Honor would be on starring James Denton. There was only one Christmas movie for Veterans that was it for the whole day. Surely they had something more in the topic range for today. ‘Love and Sunshine’ could have been on more troops worthy shows should have been on.

July is a month that is usually meant to be filled with the American Spirit. To show and feel our Pride to be Americans. Who decided to make July the month to celebrate Christmas before Christmas. I don’t really understand this decision except someone in the marketing department at Hallmark made a killing off this dumb idea. Maybe it had to do something with how hot it is generally at this time of year and it was nice to goof off and think of snow right now. Well all I can say is that wasn’t my idea.

Thankfully most people are having barbecues and pool parties and not watching television. What does this say of our Pride to be Americans when the networks on this massive day are shrinking from the authentic monumental anniversary of 248 years of Independence? They have the rest of the month but today is really sacred and should be commemorated with remembering the soldiers who died in 1770’s all the way up to now plenty of shows have been made something to bring interest back to why this country is special. Instead though Christmas movies are playing all day.

When I found the Movies channel ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’ was on. I haven’t watched this since I had the Turner Classic Movie channel at college. The show had me in tears a few times with the flag songs. We need Yankee Doodle Dandle right now in America. James Cagney was vibrant and patriotic with an amazing rhythm in his mind and body. Oh how I wish we had a new and young generation of Americans like this George M Cohan so full of pride in the American flag and using his talents for the good of his country. They told him he was too old for combat during the First World War that he was needed much more on the HomeFront and he certainly was.

George wrote a song called ‘Over There’ and performed this rallying call for Americans for the servicemen. That song was powerful and it reminds me of several songs through the years that have been just as powerful. ‘God Bless the USA’, sung by Lee Greenwood, ‘Amazed’ was performed by Lonestar I remember this song being used and sung for active servicemen and women a lot when it first came out. It spoke to their families who had to wait for them and for them to tell their families how much they missed them. Plus Toby Keith had a number of songs… American Soldier is one I still can’t not tear up at when I first hear those first chords and lyrics. There are unifying songs that America has rallied around. God Bless America, back after the September 11th attacks seeing Congress on the steps of the building singing that song was a mighty uniting moment as well.

There is a time for Christmas and it’s music. July 4th is not that time. Today is the 248th year since our inception 56 men signed a declaration and most of them died horrific deaths. All of them would be rolling around in their graves if they were in them. I feel certain though most of them were saved and are with Christ. They argued and fought with each other on the language and the points to be included. These men were well educated and primarily, Bible educated.

In order to have more Pride in our extraordinary Country it has to be manifested in little or big ways. Today is a perfect opportunity to show one’s American Pride. Someone said there should be an alert to stay away from big celebrations and get-together’s due to the Biden Border Crisis they want Americans to stay home and not celebrate.

What do you think our response to that should be?