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My beloved Daddy Jim Williamson, Jr January 29, 1932 - December 4, 2001 MMCM USN Steam Propulsion Nuclear Propulsion |
My beloved Stepfather Johnny Henderson Pruett May 30, 1933 - January 27, 2016 MSGT USAF Bronze Star Meritorius Service Medal |
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A mother’s love is something that you can’t put into words. I hope you always know how much you mean to me.
Happy birthday, my dear mother. I’m the luckiest person to have a mom like you.
I love you !
| Nesting beaches are being invaded by tourists, |
| artificial lighting confuses nesting female turtles attempting to lay eggs and |
| hatchlings in particular attempting to get to the water after their two month incubation, natural predation, |
| fishing gear entangles them with fatal results, |
| there is a booming business in 'turtle meat' and again |
| the pollution all stands in their way for survival. |
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The Star-Spangled Banner
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
’Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto - “In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Francis Scott Key
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