Summer in Da City

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A Perfect Summer Day
Buckingham Fountain in the Foreground with Michigan Avenue/Grant Park in the background and way in the background you see a glimpse of the Sears Tower (now renamed Willis Tower). This picture taken while I was stopped at a red light on Lake Shore Drive.

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The Star-Spangled Banner performed by Whitney Houston Super Bowl 1991

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Happy Birthday America - with arguable the best ever rendition of the National Anthem


                              

Written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key commemorating the American Victory over the British in the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

O say can you see by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed 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 yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

.... Yes the flag is there flying high over da blog :D

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