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I'm glad to be an American. But I won't really celebrate the Fourth of July.
The Week ^ | July 3, 2015 | Bonnie Kristian

Posted on 07/03/2015 7:06:18 AM PDT by C19fan

This weekend we celebrate the Fourth of July, high holiday of American civic religion and universal occasion for cookouts, stars-and-stripes bikinis, and raucous displays of unbridled patriotism.

More than 200 years ago, however, there was no such unanimity on the subject of the American Revolution. Though our popular history tends to avoid such off-message details, about 15 percent of white American colonists during the Revolutionary War were loyalists, and perhaps more surprisingly, close to half were effectively neutral.

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TOPICS: History; Religion
KEYWORDS: independence; pacifism
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To: captain_dave
You're looking in the wrong places....ya need to be look'in on those who gave it to us and celebrate them this Fourth!!!


41 posted on 07/03/2015 11:26:03 AM PDT by caww
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To: ShadowAce
The Eagle is 'STILL' flying....

We may grieve that we must endure til Obama's gone BUT...

OUR FLAG IS STILL THERE!!!....


42 posted on 07/03/2015 11:38:54 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Thank You very much, my heart aches for another Ronald Reagan:( ........my friend is correct(he wn’t be satisfied till we have another Reagan!)


43 posted on 07/03/2015 12:44:02 PM PDT by heshtesh (I believe in Sarah Palin, the rest not so much.)
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To: heshtesh

Ronald Reagan quotes and speaks....

“Our country is in danger...but not to be despaired of....On you depends the fortunes of America.... You are to decide the important question upon which rests the happiness and liberty of the millions yet unborn......

....Act worthy of yourselves.”

(Pres. of Mass Congress)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-0CBP0NVeo


44 posted on 07/03/2015 1:32:20 PM PDT by caww
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To: kearnyirish2

Oh’ say can you see?...

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!....Blessed with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation......THEN conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”.....And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaxGNQE5ZLA


45 posted on 07/03/2015 2:12:59 PM PDT by caww
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To: Bluewater2015

Good point; I have one, but it is 3” x 5” (instead of 3 feet by five feet)...


46 posted on 07/03/2015 2:35:13 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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