O'er the ramparts we watched the Chicago Fourth

Mark Rodriguez of WCBS-TV.com in New York posted this story yesterday:

Have you ever wondered why our national anthem ends with a question -- "Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"...


(click above hyperlink to read the entire article )

Anyway, the rocket's red glare was certainly bursting in the northwest Chicago air over our own Forest Glen house last evening--cat under the bedspread, dog under the bed, wife and I on the rooftop terrace hootin' and hollerin' along with the rest of the neighborhood--as the streaming, popping bursts of color lit the sky on every horizon and the familiar smell of burnt silver powder lingered in the summer breeze until well past the midnight hour. What a country!


Geno Petro

(pix not by me...)