Vote: Best Patriotic Picture
This week you uploaded your best patriotic pictures, now you get to choose your favorite.
You uploaded some great, patriotic pictures whis week and now its up to you to choose the best one.
All the pictures are numbers in the caption area. Please vote by giving the photo number in the comments below. We'd also love to know why you think that is the best photo, but all we need for the vote to count is the number.
Voting will end at 9 a.m. Monday. So get in your vote. One per person, please.
Preview: Next week's topic is fireworks pictures, so if you're going to see fireworks this weekend, don't forget your camera.
This is part of Patch’s summer Picture of the Week series, where we’ll be asking you for your best pictures on a certain topic each week. We love seeing the pictures you have to share and we're even adding a little incentive. The winning submission will get a Patch prize pack, which includes a very soft Patch Tshirt, a baseball cap and maybe some other Patch stuff, but more importantly, you’ll get bragging rights.
We take photo submissions each week from 4 a.m. Monday through noon Friday. Voting begisn at 4 a.m. Saturday and end at 9 a.m. Monday, so make sure to check back over the weekend to vote for your favorite picture.
Barb Miller
7:09 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
6
Marianne Johnston
7:41 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
9
Susan S.
7:56 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
2
Sindi Goldman
7:57 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Sindi Goldman
#13...I think this so appropriate for our country today and role that service dogs are used and the way he is holding his head is like he is honoring his best friend.
Kirsten
7:59 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
6 for sure
sonia bucus
8:15 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
6
David Acker
8:25 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
My kids love #4
JES
8:26 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
I say 6 as well.
Lori Winston
8:47 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Patriotism can be expressed in many ways. I vote for all of them.
travon black
9:08 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
No Black American pics! Blacks Americans love America also.
Susan S.
12:46 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
The eagle and the flag represent ALL of us - patriotism is colorblind !!
Lucy Bennett
6:17 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Photos were submitted this week during our submission period. All photos that were submitted during that time are eligible to win.
The contest is open to photos of people of any color or photos that are not of people.
I would encourage you to check on our nominations story published each Monday and if you have a photo you'd like to submit, please do. If you feel you know someone with a great photo, please let them know about it. We'd love to have more entries in each and every contest.
Fran Coghlan
9:14 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
#2, the bald headed eagle and the US flag have been signs of American Patriotism in all the books I’ve read. Also, they look great together!
Barbara HInkle
9:39 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
hard coice but it has to be # 2
Ike
10:00 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
So do Asian , but its ok .
#12
laura gallo
10:11 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Love all the pictures, but #2 represents American Patriotism.
Eva Pastor
10:31 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
#2
Suzanne Spitzer
1:36 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
#2
Caroline Scavuzzo
2:22 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
#4 is so cool but I would have to say the eagle (#2) too.
Franca Cole
5:51 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
#12 What a beautiful dog!
Lane Randall
7:22 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
#2 The combination of our flag and our national bird in real life with the eagle so proud can't be beat.
Bill Ewing
7:50 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
#6. It's real; it's human. I bet #2 was photoshopped.
Jim Salvas
8:37 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
FYI -- Number 2 was not photoshopped, other than to adjust the contrast. It was taken in Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, in Florida. The bald eagle pen has a flag in it.
Bill Ewing
9:32 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Thanks, Jim. My apologies for suggesting it was photoshopped. It is a really nice picture, but personally I would rather not choose a picture of a captive eagle as best patriotic picture. I like the apparent spontaneity of #6.
Earnest
9:38 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
I'm voting for number 10 one of two actual people that served the United States of America and clearly saw action as he received the purple heart.
Babies are cute dressed up in the symbolic red white and blue. Children are cute when they dress up and decorate their bikes (with obvious help of their talented parents, and dogs look stately next to our Flag, as do groups of flags and and a statue or stuffed eagle. American citizens coming out for an event are also patriotic. However, it seems to me that the true patriotic picture is the man in the uniform that was out there being shot at and having the duty to kill other human beings, caught in a moment of peace during a time of war.
christine Charnosky
3:01 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Thanks, Earnest. My dad was very proud of his service as am I. He actually was in the Battle of the Bulge! He loved to talk about the war. Two of his brothers served in WWII as well, and they all came home safely! His son (my brother) served in Vietnam, and as you can see by the photo, Edward's grandson (my nephew) is currently a Marine. Unfortunately, my father passed before seeing his grandson join the Marines; I'm sure he would be pleased.
marion1
9:50 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
final choice # 10 also. He represents so many WW II soldiers who served their country all over the world. We owe them so much! (agree the kids and animals are cute-if the vote was for cute. ...)
christine Charnosky
3:02 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Also, Marion1, thank you! (see comment I just wrote below Earnest's post)
Vanessa S
10:32 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
#6 -that little boy is holding that flag high & looking at it with eyes of both innocence and splendor.
Ann Cavanaugh
7:55 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012
There are several that deserve a vote but I vote for # 18.
Louise DiDonato
8:55 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012
#6 just caught my eye. The look on his face as he gazed upward, so proudly, at the flag. He is a symbol of our future.
Brian McCarthy
11:24 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012
#6, my next favorite is #15
christine Charnosky
2:57 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
I'd say #6. I like the innocence of it (and I'm voting against myself!?) just to go with the "majority."
Lindsay at Flag Lady Gifts
10:52 am on Monday, July 2, 2012
#3. A slice of American patriots.
Courtney Rostand
10:50 am on Monday, July 2, 2012
#1
Courtney Rostand
10:52 am on Monday, July 2, 2012
oh wait, maybe #17...? lol. interesting.
Cher
1:32 pm on Monday, July 2, 2012
6...reminds me of my grandson. : )