O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!

O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!

O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!

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I am of the mind that our traditional, constitutional republic, really needs success with this gas boom. I fear certain usurpers in DC and their fractivist comrades would love to shut it all down.

In Memory

Oliver Zinimon, Jr
Lance Corporal
I CO, 3RD BN, 4TH MARINES, 3RD MARDIV, III MAF
United States Marine Corps
Columbus, Ohio
March 11, 1948 to July 04, 1968
OLIVER ZINIMON Jr is on the Wall at Panel W53, Line 15
See the full profile or name rubbing for Oliver Zinimon
Buried Woodlawn Cemetary Zanesville, Ohio

AMEN Brother!

From a proud veteran in awe and respect of all who have served before and after myself.  Have a wonderful holiday everyone. 

Welcome home Brother.

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