THE AMERICAN FLAG AND AMERICAN IDEALS
The Flag and What It Stands For
Processional March (Instrumental. All standing at attention)
- National flag borne by Color Guard to platform or altar.
Apostropbe to the Flag (All uniting)
- All hail to our glorious ensign!
- Courage to the heart, and strength to the hand, to which, in all time, it shall be entrusted. On whatsoever spot it is planted, there may freedom have a foot- hold, humanity a brave champion, and religion an altar Edward Everett.
- In the name of God we lift up our banner, and dedicate it to peace, 'union, and liberty now and forevermore. Henry Ward Beecher
- I am what you make me, nothing more.
- I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color.
- A symbol of yourself.
- A pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this nation.
- My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.
- They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm with faith, because you have made them so out of your hearts.
- We are all making the flag Franklin K. Lane
Salute to the Flag
- I pledge allegiance to my flag
- And to the republic for which it stands;
- One nation, indivisible,
- With liberty and justice for all.
National Anthem
- O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light
- What so proudly we nailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
- Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
- O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
- And the rockets' 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 still wave
- O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
(All seated)
Prayer O God of purity and peace, God of light and freedom, God of comfort and joy, we thank thee for our country, this great land of hope, whose wide doors thou hast opened to so many millions that struggle with hardship and with hunger in the crowded Old World. We give thanks to the power that has made and preserved us a nation, that has carried our ship of state through storm and darkness and has given us a place of honor and power that we might bear aloft the standard of impartial liberty and impartial law.
May our altars and our schools ever stand as pillars of welfare; may the broad land be filled with homes of intelligent and contented industry, that through the long generations our land may be a happy land and our country a power of good will among the nations. Amen. Charles Gordon Ames
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