Happy 4th of July

Free Republic | July 4th 2006 | Me

[Number57]

Here's to the Freepers - I love you guys... please have a safe and happy Independence Day! Pray for us all and fire off as many explosive decorations as possible (or legal).

God Bless

[Number57]

lol... I didn't know I could afford an editor~

[FreeRep]

I like what Ronald Reagan once said about the Fourth of July: "Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."

God Bless America!

[Number57]

Red Skelton reads the Pledge of Allegiance

[geopyg]

Yes - I wonder where those leaders are too. I liken it to the toppling of Saddam's Statue. That hopefully will be celebrated (again!) as Iraq's Independence Day after they (with our help) have secured their nation. Much as it took us many long years of fighting (with its defeats and misery and talk of "cut and run") to finally secure our Liberty (with France and Prussia's help).

And as I recall the wording was finalized and copies were made, but the Declaration of Independence was not signed until the fourth. (?)

[Liberty Valance]

[MaineVoter2002]

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY TO ALL!

[geopyg]

OOPS - a bit off on my memory, not not signed until August:
AND - Victory was not declared until 7 years later.



July 2, 1776
Lee Resolution Adopted & Consideration of Declaration
On July 2, the Lee resolution was adopted by 12 of the 13 colonies (New York did not vote). Immediately afterward, Congress began to consider the Declaration. Congress made some alterations and deletions to it on July 2, 3, and the morning of the 4th.
More Information in the American Originals Exhibit

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July 4, 1776
Declaration of Independence Adopted and Printed
Late in the morning of July 4, the Declaration was officially adopted, and the "Committee of Five" took the manuscript copy of the document to John Dunlap, official printer to the Congress.
Printed Declaration of Independence

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July 5, 1776
Copies of the Declaration Dispatched
On the morning of the July 5, copies printed by John Dunlap were dispatched by members of Congress to various committees, assemblies, and to the commanders of the Continental troops.
(On July 9, the action of Congress was officially approved by the NY Convention.)

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July 19, 1776
Congress Orders the Declaration Engrossed on Parchment
Congress ordered that the Declaration be "fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and stile {sic} of ‘The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America’ and that the same, when engrossed, be signed by every member of Congress."

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August 2, 1776
Declaration Signed
The document was signed by most of the members on August 2. George Wythe signed on August 27. On September 4, Richard Henry Lee, Elbridge Gerry, and Oliver Wilcott signed. Matthew Thornton signed on November 19, and Thomas McKean signed in 1781.

[Liberty Valance]

[Liberty Valance]

[Rte66]

1776 - The first ice cream parlor opened in New York City!

.George Washington liked ice cream so much he reportedly had a bill for $200 for ice cream one summer.

.Our 4th First Lady, Dolley Madison, created a sensation when she served ice cream at a White House inaugural ball in 1812.

.I scream, you scream, we all scream for "iced cream" as in 1776!

HAPPY ICED CREAM DAY, FREEPERS!

[Defiant]

I lllllove youz guys, too. (hic).

[Number57]

Buy the next one?

:P

[gilor]

Thank You!

HAPPY BIRTH DAY TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

I took my daughter to work today and she wrote the same thing on the dry erase board, all the CSR's smiled.

[geopyg]

From the book "Voices of 1776":

A copy of the momentous document was promptly sent to Washington [fighting] in new york, and July 9 became a special day. As reported in the Pennsylvania Journal:

This afternoon the Declaration of Independence was read at the head of each brigade of the Continental Army...it was received everywhere with loud huzzas and the utmost demonstrations of joy. And tonight the equestrian statue of George III....has, by the Sons of Freedom, been laid prostrate in the dirt - the just desert of an ungrateful tyrant! The lead wherewith the monument was made is to be run into bullets to assimilate with the brains of our infatuated adversaries...

[Names Ash Housewares]

[Michael81Dus]

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ANNIVERSARY OF YOUR INDEPENDANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! May you and your citizens continue to serve peace and prosperity on our planet.

Michael
Germany

[NaughtiusMaximus]

This is such a great country!

We're so lucky to live here!

I mean, we could have been born in France.

And ain't you happy you're not a Liberal today?

And . . . we have Free Republic to do our rants on!

Happy Anniversary America!!

[1lawlady]

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 earth a separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's G-d entitle them. A decent respect for the opinions of mankind require that they declare the causes which impel them to this 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.
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And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of the Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

I memorized those beautiful words 53 years ago when I was seven. They still bring a catch in my throat and tear in my eye when I think of all those words mean, and all they can mean. Happy Independence Day, my beautiful Americans. Let Freedom Ring!

[mysterio]

Happy 4th of July to you, too! Hope yours if a safe and memorable one.

[Number57]

False notions of liberty are strangly common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes--whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.

~F. W. Robertson