Created by Peg M.

September 11, 2001

We need to give thanks and send prayers to those who serve in the military.  It is through their efforts our country will remain free.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
~ Thomas Jefferson ~

"Freedom Is Not Free" 

"I watched the flag pass by one day - It fluttered in the breeze 
A young marine saluted it - And then he stood at ease 
I looked at him in uniform - So young, so tall, so proud 
With hair cut square and eyes alert - He'd stand out in any crowd 
I wondered how many men like him - Have fallen through the years 
How many died on foreign soil - How many Mothers' tears 
How many pilot's planes shot down - How many died at sea 
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves - No, Freedom is not Free. 
I heard the sound of taps one night - When everything was still 
I listened to the bugler play - And felt a sudden chill 
I wondered just how many times - Taps had meant "Amen" 
When a flag had covered a coffin - Of a brother or a friend 
I thought of all the children - Of the Mothers and the Wives 
Of Fathers, Sons, and Husbands - With interrupted lives 
And I thought about the graveyard - At the bottom of the sea 
Of unmarked graves in Arlington - No, Freedom is not Free. 

A poem, written in 1981 by 
AFJROTC Cadet Kelly Strong of 
Homestead High School, Florida 

A message from our President:

We Will Not Waiver
We Will Not Tire
We Will Not Falter
We WILL NOT FAIL
Peace and Freedom will Prevail
President George W. Bush..October 7, 2001

The Presidential Prayer Team

Our Flag
There are many flags in many lands,
There are flags of every hue;
But there is no flag, however grand,
Like our own Red, White, and Blue.
~Mary Howliston~