We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

"Is it the Fourth?" — Thomas Jefferson, last words. Jefferson died July 4, 1826.

Something to think about
It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high hat and too sophisticated for flag waving, some thug nation decides we're a pushover, all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up Very anxiously to be sure the flag's still waving up over us.

• From the motion picture Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Released in 1942, the sentiment is as true then as it is over 60 years later.
• Hollywood was a much different place then.