“A Capital Fourth” Every year on July 4 th , my family tries to watch the ‘Capital 4 th ’ concert on PBS. Some years we miss it, but it’s certainly been one of the more constant traditions my family has had on Independence Day (aside from watching the movie….
We live in a flicker of light/Swift as a swallow’s wings/A day of sunshine and pain./Then dusk falls./And the bird flies home in the evening./I have sailed the blue ship with the silver prow/Over the sea of eternal stars/I have crossed the guardian’s rim of fire/And passed into dreaming. ~ OR Melling.
Today's featured article SMS König was the first of four König class dreadnought battleships of the German Imperial Navy during World War I . König ( Eng: "King") was named in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany .