[nathanbedford]

Every year my wife asks, "are you going to post your vanity about the Declaration of Independence again this year?" Her question is really rhetorical, she knows I intend to post it because it has become a tradition in the family much like whether your family opens your Christmas presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. A family tradition for us as familiar as Thanksgiving turkey. Do you you display the flag on Memorial Day?

For us, living as we do here in Germany, it is our way of holding fast to our America. Every year we keep the tradition and then await the reactions of FReepers which have been consistently gratifying and even heartwarming.

So the tradition goes on into its 10th year even as the imperative to return to and cling to the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution becomes more urgent as our country founders in the midst of a terrible "fundamental transformation" imposed upon us, partly by stealth, by a marxist President who despises the nation created by the very Declaration of Independence we revere today.

"Transformed" by domestic forces within, we are buffeted by a multigenerational jihad against the principles which founded America. Our representative democracy is made more vulnerable, as any government of the people would be, by our own leaders bent on transforming America away from the only values which can save her.

The 10 year old boy in the anecdote exchanged his Tee shirt for a tie and a real suit two years ago and we all went proudly off to his high school graduation, his Abschluss from Gymnasium. Our parental expectations had been, to paraphrase John Kennedy, to send him into the world and onto college equipped with the best of both worlds, a German education and an American birthright, bequeathed to him by the founders in the Declaration of Independence.

He has a piece of paper, written out in German, certifying his accomplishment of the course of study laid out in an elite German high school. There is a piece of parchment reposing in the Library of Congress drafted by Thomas Jefferson but written in blood at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Belleau Wood, Iwo Jima, Chosen Reservoir, Tet, the Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan.

Both belong to him.... If he can keep them.

Happy Independence Day to all from all of us in Germany!

[teeman8r]

Amen.

[DisorderOnBorder]

Awesome...thanks for sharing

I am a German born American, so I have many good feelings from your post.

Happy Independence Day!

[Dead Corpse]

Oh-rah...

[ArtDodger]

Great read! I don't use Google but I go there to see how they ignore important patriotic and Christian days.. Check ‘em out and see their July 4th splash.

[SampleMan]

Awesome

[Popman]

bump...

[Jim Noble]

Just hope you don’t have to explain “Ermächtigungsgesetz” before another July 4 arrives.

#Luv ya redcoats but glad we kept our guns

[SES1066]

There is a piece of parchment reposing in the Library of Congress drafted by Thomas Jefferson but written in blood at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Belleau Wood, Iwo Jima, Chosen Reservoir, Tet, the Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan.

As a Texan in ancestry, I'd ask you to add the Alamo to your list and as an American, Fort McHenry, but regardless I say "Ten-hut, hand salute!"

[visualops]

great story! thanks

[yldstrk]

why Germany

[mkmensinger]

Great story! Isn’t “UNABHÄNGIGKEITSTAG” something the witch doctor said in that old song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYgOlqinH7A

[MV=PY]

"Happy Independence Day to all from all of us in Germany!"

And the same to you sir. Excellent post.

[MSSC6644]

Thanks for following through with your tradition. This is the first time I’ve been privileged to read it. Beautiful!

Happy Independence Day to you and yours!

[skinkinthegrass]

with all these "troubling events" in the USA today,
I give to you, your son and family a
VERY HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
GOD, HAVE FAITH IN THE USA AND IT'S PEOPLE.

[MNnice]

Be sure to tell your children that God is mentioned four times in the Declaration. Then challenge them to find the four references. It’ll be fun.

[kiryandil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarationism

"...and when the government takes away your rights, the government is not legitimate, and you can change it."

This is why the Sunni punk was a "Constitutional scholar" - he is part of the mass of writhing Ivy League termites eating away at the Constitution, and their schtick rests on the foundation of deceiving the people into believing that the Constitution "gives them" their Rights.

Did you see the Ivy League wenchlette who has mounted a Deconstructionist assault on the Declaration?

She needs a little chin music.