July 3, 2012
There's a lot of history around the 4th of July, and in all truth it only marks the beginning of a long and difficult struggle to freedom from British rule. It was a movement that half of the people at the time didn't even agree with. And declaring freedom was a lot easier than winning it - we should thank Gens. Washington, Green, and Knox in large part for that. But it was a starting point and one to be remembered and revered, along with the sacrifices of so many other people with The Glorious Cause. Take time to say a little thank you on the 4th. We have a lot of challenges to get things on track in the U.S. Let's hope tomorrow's leaders find their own glorious calling by working together to strengthen our common future.
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gregorythegr8 10 months, 2 weeks ago
The 4th was not the first, but a highly significant milestone in the early days of the struggle for independence. It began as much as a decade earlier and grew to a peak at Philadelphia, July 4, 1776. Ask any Halifax County resident and they will tell you about the Halifax resolves. The Boston Tea Party took place before July 4, 1776. The fourth was significant, still, if not the beginning.
Guy_Forks 10 months, 1 week ago
I am so sick of people expressing platitudes for some random calendar date, while demonstrating their ignorance to it's purpose.
It is not "the fourth of July" some arbitrary date. It is "Independence Day". The day that the American Colonies, in one voice declared that this day forth (July 4th 1776) all government draws it's power from the consent of the governed, by inaction or otherwise. That each human equally shares the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit, but not attainment (as a king claims), of happyness. That these rights are inalienable because each human possesses them, and are not the sole provenance of kings, and despots. For this document alone, even in the absence of a American Republic, makes every sacrifice, every struggle, and every drop of our fathers blood, from that day to this day, worthwhile. For now the world over shall know that no man, no king, can govern the hearts of humans, nor force his will upon them without consent.
This is why I'm offended by these meaningless and equally thoughtless platitudes. As a young American raised on the American dream, I am greatly disheartened by its wide spread abandonment.
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