Today is tradition of cook-outs and fireworks. It is also the most important day in America's history. After fighting with Great Britain about taxation and general treatment from the mother country, in April of 1775 Britain decided they were going to take our guns and ammunition away. That was the catalyst needed. Hostilities ensued and the Revolutionary War began with fighting in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. Our fight for freedom began.
Our founding fathers, such as Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Franklin to name a few, were working on a declaration to Great Britain for our separation. Actually, Jefferson was the writer of this document (but other members did have a hand by tidying up the document) named the Declaration of Independence and it was voted to declare independence from Great Britain on July 2, 1776. On July 4, 1776 the declaration was signed. Thus, the day we celebrate.
In honor of Thomas Jefferson and his words, I would like to reiterate the first paragraph and the most famous line from the Declaration of Independence:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds 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."...
We in America have many different views and opinions. We continue to fight over guns and ammunition, and to fight over life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but we persevere to celebrate one more Independence Day. May we never feel the need to separate from each other.
Until tomorrow...have a great day...
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