O’er the land of the free. And the home of the brave.
Wyoming Ranch Family Celebrate July 4 With Legions of Flags Lining Highway on Farm—Tell Reason Why
Excerpted from The Epoch Times
“America is more than a country—it is an idea, a spirit, a way of life.
On July 1, we asked Amy Rhodes, 39, a mother and the wife of a cattle rancher on Salt River Ranch, how she and her family will celebrate the Fourth of July. And we asked what America is.
For her family, on July 4, there will be flags by the bundle flown on the farm. “Close to 50,” she told The Epoch Times. They plan to line the highway with fluttering red, white, and blue all along the fence line of their property by planting them in brackets set in fenceposts. “We’re gonna try to cover all of it if we can, the whole stretch,” she said.
That planting of flags began on July 2 so that travelers along the highway would have a few days to appreciate the patriotic gesture. Last year, most of the Rhodeses inaugurated this family affair. This year, it will be solidified as tradition as, at the time of writing, they prepare a tractor to haul their flags and four kids, who will unload and raise the stars and stripes along the highway again.
“They had so much fun doing it,” Mrs. Rhodes said of their first year’s occasion. “They were asking us if we can do it again this year.”
“We were just trying to think of a way that we could show our love for our country,” she said. “And we were trying to instill in our kids the importance of the flag.”
America is “a gift from God,” she told the newspaper. “The only way to really change the trajectory of our nation is to raise a generation to love our country, and to love and respect our flag, and understand the freedoms that it really represents.”
