Two items for this 4th:

The flag at Ft. McHenry MD, summer of 1999.  Keys original handwritten text of the Star Spangled Banner can be viewed here..  I visited the Fort, which is at the entrance to the Baltimore harbor.  Here is the National Park Service brochure: Ft. McHenry MD.   

 

Here is a very important writing by retired Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luddig about our Declaration of Independence.  Take the time to read this in its entirety.

This is no time to relax, or to give up.