HAPPY BIRTHDAY U.S.A.

[Jersey mike]

AND MAY GOD BLESS THESE UNITED STATES
Have a great day everyone. Eat, drink and celebrate with family, friends or neighbors.

Cheers to you all 

[DIGGER]

We are at the Texas Coast town of Sargent Texas.   We have a small fish camp here.   I made a huge pot of seafood gumbo last nite and we are having friends and neighbors over tonight.   There are always major fireworks here on the 4th of July.  Hope everyone has a great 4 th.

A friend of mine said " why do we have to pay taxes on fireworks that we buy to celebrate a holiday where we refused to pay taxes?...."

[f6john]

We are at the Texas Coast town of Sargent Texas.   We have a small fish camp here.   I made a huge pot of seafood gumbo last nite and we are having friends and neighbors over tonight.   There are always major fireworks here on the 4th of July.  Hope everyone has a great 4 th.

A friend of mine said " why do we have to pay taxes on fireworks that we buy to celebrate a holiday where we refused to pay taxes?...."

It was, “no taxation without representation “, but that’s really in question now! It’s still the best we have got.


Our family has no big plans but we will find a way to enjoy the day!

[old2soon]

     I got up outa the rack breathing! Figured THAT wuz a purty good start!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA.  RIDE SAFE.

[carolinarider09]

Happy Birthday to the USA.   

And remember the words in the "Declaration".

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

The above words were never more important than they should be today. 

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

[LTD]

even though my family was pro british at the time Happy July 4th!

[Oss]

a framed copy of the Declaration is on a wall in my office

Kids today are unable to read it as it is in longhand

Not only that, but the way a person wrote each letter gave each word significance beyond just the word itself

here is a link to some good information
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=what+do+the+letters+mean+in+the+declaration+of+independence&type=E210US714G0#id=5&vid=fa6bf361cfd81d522a03d7e0c90e844c&action=click

[carolinarider09]

a framed copy of the Declaration is on a wall in my office

Kids today are unable to read it as it is in longhand

Not only that, but the way a person wrote each letter gave each word significance beyond just the word itself

here is a link to some good information
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=what+do+the+letters+mean+in+the+declaration+of+independence&type=E210US714G0#id=5&vid=fa6bf361cfd81d522a03d7e0c90e844c&action=click