In between helping Tom grill and prepare enough meals to take us through the weekend so I can finish my copy edits, I took a trip through my photo archives to see what photos might relate to July 4. Most of these were taken by me, but a few were taken by my mother, Lynne, Tim, my nieces, and a couple of other folks.
My stint as high school Color Guard Captain may not be a great claim to fame, but it’s mine. That, and the fact that I’m an Army brat, mean I’ll always honor the U.S. flag. Many of these photos show Margot, Guinness, Rex, and EZ posed with a particular flag. I call it the “rescue flag.” In December 2001, when everyone was flying flags, Tom and I were visiting my sister. She saw this one blowing down the street and had no way to find its owner. When I asked for it, she gave it to me. Because all The Compound dogs, including the late River, are rescues, this is their flag–and no dogs or flags were harmed during the making of this video.
Happy Independence Day weekend. Peace.
ETA: Embedded video has now been made private on YouTube. Sorry.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men, women and pets are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I’m sure Tom, John and Ben wouldn’t argue with that little edit.
Even though some of the people who wave it are less than what we deserve;
It will always be a grand old flag.
Have a bang up weekend. I’ll be going out to my niece’s house tomorrow, setting up the surround sound system for herBIG SCREEN projection TV and playing my DVD of 1776 for her girl scout troop.
Have fun!
I haven’t watched 1776 for years. I used to love that movie. I need to see if any of our video stores have it.
I don’t think I’ve seen it. Who’s in it?
Starring: John Cullum, William Daniels (II), Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard, Roy Poole (II)
Directed by: Peter H. Hunt
Produced by: Jack L. Warner
(It’s a musical.)
Almost the entire original Broadway cast — William Daniels – Adams, Ken Howard – Jefferson, Howard De Silva – Franklin, and John Cullum as Edward Rutledge the delegate from S.C. The only change Blythe Danner replaced Betty Buckley as Martha Jefferson.
Oh, do rent it. The DVD is far superior to the VHS version. The film was badly censored at the request of the White House. Nixon was good friends with Sam Warner and he previewed the film before it was released. He hated it and Warner ordered songs and dialog cut from the film and destroyed before it was released. The editors did not destroy the film or negatives and the director restored the cut scenes for the Director’s Cut DVD. So the DVD has all the material from the stage version back in it, and with almost all the original stage cast members. It was the first musical I saw on Broadway. I arrived five-minutes before curtain and got a first row center seat. Since it it used a thrust stage with the center corner covering the orchestra pit, all the major scenes and songs were done four to six feet in front of me. What an experience!
That was great, Becky. Thanks!
You’re welcome. The Compound Dogs are difficult models, not like Phoebe and Sophie.
What a wonderful montage, Becky!!
Thank you.
That’s really a pretty song playing in the background.
It’s Enya. (I’m only repeating that so I can tell you that your user pic is cracking me up.)
Only, crap, then I ended up with 13 comments. So now I have to say something else. Like–those photos you took with Lisa’s camera are so good and/or amusing. You need to take more photos.
it’s pretty awesome….
Sixteenth!
What, no photo of me in my Union Jack T-shirt?
Loyalist!
Even as one of the “kicked out” British I can certainly appreciate the sentiments expressed here . . . that was terribly moving; thank you for sharing.
(I’d love to be in on the conversations between your dogs when they see you approaching with a bandana/flag/camera!!)
Thank YOU. I’m such an Anglophile it’s surprising I don’t go into mourning every year on the date. 😉
As for my dogs, I’m guessing they think, Isn’t there something in the Constitution that protects us from exploitation? FREE CANINE AMERICANS!
nicely done
very cool vid Becky…. i especially loved the one of the three dogs under the flag with Margot trying to lean as far away as possible…
the torment they must endure.
It made me miss River.
Thanks for sharing it.
Jim
Re: nicely done
River was a good sport, too. You’re welcome. (And I hope there were no more fireworks in the desert for Hailey’s sake.)