Today we celebrate our independence day, July 4th, fireworks, patriotic songs, picnics, loud noises, flag waving and the like. As well we should celebrate. We have a great deal of freedom in this country thanks to what happen on July 4, 1776. Back then the fireworks were real with real cannons and bullets in the air. On that day the Declaration of Independence was signed; those who signed it were branded as traitors to England and a bounty was put on their heads. Signing that paper could have resulted in their death. Today we can wave our flags, shop at our stores (which I did way too much of today) and shoot rockets into to the sky thanks to men like Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and others.
Throughout our country's short history there have been many people to thank for perserving our freedom: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. to name a few--and especially the military who sometimes give up their lives.
Thanks.
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. --John 15:13
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