Thanks Ezekiel.
Thanks Ezekiel.
I had hoped this would garner some interest out there.
It may be an obscure data point, but it’s high on the symbolic reference scale.
Besides, America’s Independence (”We’re bustin’ outta here!”) Day in 1776 was on the 17th of Tammuz, the fast day for when the Romans breached the walls of JerUSAlem.
“According to the Mishnah,[2] five calamities befell the Jewish people on this day:”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_of_Tammuz#History
In concert with all of that, is the word from John Adams, that
“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.”
https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17760703jasecond
Of note because in 2026, just ahead of America’s 250th birthday, July 2nd is the 17th of Tammuz, thus linking the 2nd and the 4th.
Perhaps it will turn out in the end, that John Adams was not mistaken in his enthusiasm for July 2nd, only that he’d got the year wrong.
