The 4th of July is Independence day in America (please click here for fun and facts for the whole family!)
Happy Birth day America! Yes, we all hear that said once a year but what does it really mean? Well for many of us it's time to BBQ with friends and family by our side or to visit friends and relatives.
Have you ever wondered just what the signers of that Declaration of Independence had to endure during and after they met to sign it? Click on the header for some facts that may well astound you. This was no walk in the park by a long shot. The King was none to happy with the idea of loosing a colony, and the signers knew it but persevered anyway.
Through the years this Republic has weathered great travail such as the Civil War (July 3rd. is the anniversary of the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg when Picket's charge was ordered,) and all wars since then. Our young men and women have always answered the call to preserve our cherished freedom, and they still do it willingly today.
Tomorrow when your having the Birthday celebration take one last look back for those who have given us the freedom we hold so dear, thank them, and thank Almighty God for what has been called our "unique experiment" known as Liberty!
Tom Ford
NO. 910
posted by Crestwood Independent at 07:53
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From the attachment:
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address was delivered by President Abraham Lincoln, on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War (July, 1863). The text of the speech is as follows:
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."
-- Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
"Man is not free unless government is limited."
Ronald Reagan
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