London

I visited once. I rode their tubes. It felt to me like it could have been me.

But what really touched me for some reason was this story and photo about the Union Jack being flown at the State Department today. They say it's the first time a foreign flag has ever flown there.

The story also says that after 9/11, "Queen Elizabeth ordered her personal guards to play The Star Spangled Banner instead of God Save The Queen."

It's poignant, right after our Independence Day, to have this kind of reminder of America's lasting bond with the mother country of political liberty.

Long ago we gave their royalty the finger,
But somehow loyalty lingers.