I wanted to wish everyone a Happy 4th of July. It has always been one of my favorite holidays. For the food, the fireworks and for what we're celebrating. We enjoy unprecedented freedoms in this day and age, in many countries. But much of what is now taken for granted in the western world started here. I'm grateful to those men and women who fought to promote liberty and freedom and to those, through the years, who have continued that fight. May we all have a lovely Independence Day!
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ~Louis D. Brandeis
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. ~Adlai Stevenson
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck
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Terrific post Ian. Well needed since we often take things for granted. I was watching the news hour and they were talking about a poll that was taken and that 40% of young people under 29 weren't sure what we were celebrating on Idependence Day. At church today in RS Sister Snow said that 75% of people polled didn't know which country we got our independence from. Very sad. Gald to see you quoting Adlai Stevenson. He is the first political person I was ever aware of. My dad was a big supporter and he had campaign buttons and bumper stickers. I think my mom sold that stuff on ebay a few years before she died. Funny the things a person remembers. Ha...
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