"Be kind to your web-footed friends
For a duck may be somebody's mother!"

Stars'n Stripes Forever is one of those quintessential American songs to me, the other is Sing, Sing, Sing as writted by Louis Prima and performed by Benny Goodman.

And to be sharing the time with friends from across the pond reminds me of a Bicentennial mug I saw in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston:

"SUCCESS
to the crooked but interesting
town of BOSTON"