Independence Day OOTD

Here is my OOTD for the Fourth of July!

Stars & Stripes Forever by jessicar23

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Friday Fancies for the Fourth

Happy Friday bloggies! I know most of you have the day off but I am one of the few that are working today. Since Independence Day is one of my favorite holidays (after Christmas and Thanksgiving) I thought I would link up for the very first time for Friday Fancies with {av} at Long Distance Loving.

Here is my outfit of choice to wear to Fourth of July Festivies if money were no object which is the whole point of FF.

Indepedence Day Friday Fancies by jessicar23

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Salute the Brave

I had remembered I wanted to blog about this about a month ago when I first heard about it. I thought it was appropriate with Independence Day coming up.

Let me introduce you to Salute the Brave. 

Salute the Brave is a company a USC student started as a project for a class. Every Friday I receive e-mails from different people talking about the School of Business and the Friday before Memorial Day, Ryan Morris shared his story. Here is an excerpt from the e-mail:

"I decided to try something that could be a successful business, but still give back to a great cause. Salute The Brave hats was born. The idea is pretty simple. We produce a line of baseball caps that feature graphics saluting the brave men and women fighting for our country. Every time I sell a hat, I donate one to Operation Gratitude. Operation Gratitude sends care packages to soldiers who are deployed in harm’s way overseas, or who are back in the U.S. recovering from wounds suffered in service."

I love the message of this especially around Independence Day when we should all be grateful that there fellow Americans that will sacrifice their lives to allow us to keep our Independence.

There are a few different designs of the hats. They have state hats for Texas, North Carolina, and California which have a patch of the state on the side of the hat.

Kinda random thing about this company: I was checking out the company's twitter and it/he had tweeted to Tim McGraw that they would be at the same concert I went to. Sometime during Luke Bryan's set (I can't remember what song) I see Luke grab a hat from the crowd and it was one of the Salute the Brave hats! How cool and random is that?! I hope Luke wears it and gets the word out about this great company.

Go check out the website and buy a hat for you or a serviceman/woman that you know and give it to them for Independence Day and make sure to say thank you to them for all they do.   

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Patriotic WIPT

I am linking up with the lovely Sarah Elizabeth at We're Just Like You Only Prettier for a patriotic themed What I'm Playing Thursday.

Love Love Love this song! Who else is reminded of the scene in The Sandlot when they are playing their one night game of the year under the fireworks?

The first time I saw Brooks & Dunn in concert this was one of the last songs, if not the last song, they sang and it was amazing especially when they brought members of the military up on stage.

Toby Keith has some great America songs.

Your Independence Day is not complete without hearing this song. I love it!

This is just a funny video I found on youtube of the same song just the Muppet version. What I find hilarious is the video was posted by the user "patrioticeagle"

I hope all of these songs put you in a patriotic mood!

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