ACROSTIC-OUR FLAG

 

ACROSTIC- OUR FLAG 

Arranged by INEZ MCTEE 

Each child carries a letter which is held aloft while speaking, and then fastened on the breast.

O-  fold of white and scarlet! O blue field with your silver stars! May fond eyes welcome you, willing feet follow you, strong hands defend you, warm hearts cherish, you and dying lips give you their blessing! Ours by inheritance, ours by allegiance, our by affection- long may you float on the free winds of heaven the emblem of liberty, the hope of the world! 

Selected  

Up with the banner bright, 

Sprinkled with starry light, 

Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore, 

While through the sounding sky 

Loud rings the nation's cry- 

Union and Liberty! One Evermore! 

O. W. Holmes 

R ed says, "Be brave;" 

White says, "Be pure;" 

Blue says, "Be true," 

Selected 

F lag of the free hearts hope and home, 

By angel's hand to valor given; 

Thy stars have lit the welkin dome 

And all thy hues were born in heaven. 

Drake 

L et the National flag float over every schoolhouse in the country, and the exercises be such as shall press upon our youth the patri otic duties of American citizens. 

Benjamin Harrison

A song for our banner? The watchword recall 

Which gave the Republic her station; 

United we stand, divided we fall! 

It made and preserved us a nation. 

Morris  

G od bless our stars forever, 

It is liberty's refrain. 

Anon 

References:

2.4 NOV1914 MEMORIAL DAY May Thirtieth 1914 

MY OWN UNITED STATES

 MY OWN UNITED STATES - THE HYMN 

Revised Edition- New verses written at the suggestion of 
THE NATIONAL SONG SOCIETY 

Lyric by STANISLAUS STANGE 

Music by JULIAN EDWARDS

1.My native land, my country dear,

Where men are equal free;

For thee each morn new love is born, 

Sweet land of liberty.

With tears my eyes are filling fast,

Yes, tears that joy awaits, 

With love I... cry :

"For you I'd die,

 My own United States !"

Refrain

I I love ev'ry inch of her prairie, 

Each stone on her mountain's side; 

I love ev'ry drop of the water clear,

That flows in her rivers wide. 

I love e' ry tree, ev'ry blade of grass 

With in Columbia's gates!

The Queen of the earth is the land of my birth.

My own United States. 

2. From golden youth to country silver'd age,

Tho' feeble feet may lag,

With joy each heart bids age depart,   

When gazing on our flag. 

The flag that ever filling leads the van,

Whose cour age naught a bates,

The flag of youth, the you flag of truth!

My own United States!

References:

NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS  May 1919

DECORATION DAY

DECORATION DAY, or MEMORIAL DAY , one day in the spring of each year, set apart as a legal holiday in most of the states of the American Union, to do honor to those who fought on either side in the War of Secession. Out of an expression of love and grief by bereaved women of the South- the strewing of wild flowers on the graves of their soldier dead one certain day each year- has grown a nation wide and beautiful custom. Since 1899 the celebration of the day has been extended to include the honored dead of the Spanish American War.

 General John A. Logan, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, in 1868 designated the thirtieth day of May as the day on which the graves of dead Union soldiers should be decorated, and this date is now universally observed throughout the Northern states. April 26 is appointed as Memorial Day in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; in North and South Carolina the day set apart is May 10; the second Friday in May is ob sered in Tennessee and in Louisiana. Jefferson Davis's birthday, June 3, is also that state's Memorial Day. Decoration Day is now a day of dignified addresses, exercises, parades, and military salutes, as well as strewing of flowers, and planting of shrubs. 

References:

2. WORLD BOOK VOL. III  

JULY

 JULY 

a poem by MAY AIKEN 

JULY FOURTH, when the big flag lay 
Ready to celebrate the day, 
"Barbara Frietchie" I became, 
And faced the enemy's deadly aim 
At my attic window. But I heard a cry 

Of "Fire!"- and saw a sword close by

 Of Stonewall Jackson, his steed astride,- 

Well, I meant to have waved my flag and cried:

"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head."-

 But I hid inside the flag, instead!

References;

1. St. Nicholas July 1908