Diane Vogel Ferri’s full-length poetry book is Everything is Rising (Luchador Press). Her latest novel is No Life But This: A Novel of Emily Warren Roebling (Atbosh Media) Her essays have been published in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Scene Magazine, and Yellow Arrow Journal, among others. Her poems can be found in numerous journals such as Wend Poetry, Blue Heron Review, Rubbertop Review, and Poet Lore. Her previous publications are Liquid Rubies (poetry), The Volume of Our Incongruity (poetry), and The Desire Path (novel). She has done many poetry readings locally. Diane’s essay, “I Will Sing for You” was featured at the Cleveland Humanities Festival in 2018. A former teacher, she holds an M.Ed from Cleveland State University and is a founding member of Literary Cleveland. Her poem, For You, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of The Net 2023

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Fourth of July 2009


Take a moment and think back to your fifth grade social studies class and remember how this country came to be. If it weren't for a few good men stepping up, taking leadership roles and fighting for our independence - we wouldn't be out partying today. God bless America.

4 comments:

Jan said...

Thanks.

Rob-bear said...

Hope you had a great day!

Daniel Bell said...

Let's also remember that those good men were just that--men, brave and smart, but fallible and men of their time. Many held slaves and wrote them out of the constitution but for census purposes. And when they wrote "all men are created equal" they meant just that--MEN, not women, who could not even vote.

So, let's remember all they did, not only the fifth grade social studies version. Sadly, many of our citizens' understanding of our republic only goes that deep.

On the upside, HAPPY 4th!

Cheryl said...

Amen!