Category: america
No potentates
![](https://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/230704-new-citizens-Monticello.jpg)
“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”-Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America
End of the Day
![yeocomico river](https://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/231123-Yeocomico-BH-sunset.jpg)
Potentate
![new citizens](http://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/220704-Cropped-Mcello-group-bw.jpg)
![taking the oath](http://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/220704-Mcello-Oath.jpg)
![Is Fred Flintstone still a known figure?](http://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/220704b-Mcello-Fred-Flintstone-.jpg)
a great sadness
![Betty's greenhouse](http://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/220518-greenhouse-baby-bird.jpg)
James Madison trending
![John Henri Isaac Browere life-mask bust of President Madison](http://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/090416-Madison-bust.jpg)
James Madison.
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Browere’s Life Masks of Great Americans, by
Charles Henry Hart
Arlington
![an oak and soldiers](http://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/220326bw-Arlington-National-Cemetery.jpg)
Visiting Arlington yearly should be a required activity for all members of the Executive branch.
And the rest of us.
Another day
tribes
Rapidan Trading Post
![country store](http://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/200913bw-Rapidan-Trading-post.jpg)