Birthdays

Today dear Lord I am 80 and there’s much I haven’t done.

I hope dear Lord you’ll let me live until I’m 81.

But then if I haven’t finished all I want to do,

Would you let me stay a while – until I’m 82?

So many places I want to go, so very much to see,

Do you tjink you could manage to make it 83?

The world is changing very fast, there’s so much more in store,

I’d like it very much to live “til I’m 84.

And if by then I’m still alive,

I’d like to stay ‘til 85.

More planes will be in the air and I’d really like to fix

My eyes aloft and see what happens when I’m 86.

I know dear Lord it’s much to ask and it must be nice in heaven,

But I’d really like to stick around until I’m 87.

I know by then I won’t be fast and sometimes will be late,

But it would be oh so pleasant to be around at 88.

I will have seen so many things and had a wonderful time,

So I’m sure that I’ll be willing to leave at 89.---

Maybe!

--Author unknown



Flag Day



As you celebrate the anniversary of the Stars and Stripes, here are some fast facts about “Old Glory.”

On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress took a break from writing the Articles of Confederation and passed a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white,” and that “the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.

Bernard Cigrand, a small-town Wisconsin teacher, originated the idea for an annual flag day, to be celebrated across the country every June 14, in 1885

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson marked the anniversary of that decree by officially establishing June 14 as Flag Day.