4th of July
HAPPY 4th of JULY
What does Freedom mean to you?
How will you celebrate Freedom this weekend/4th?
How do you contribute to Freedom?
HAPPY 4th of JULY
What does Freedom mean to you?
How will you celebrate Freedom this weekend/4th?
How do you contribute to Freedom?
I try to celibrate freedom with obeying the law of the land. Our contstitution was founded on the principle of "DO UNTO OTHER AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU". Without that principle followed we can not have true freedom!
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" - Leo Tolstoy. FREEDOM!INDEPENDENCE!not to be had without a price.Reading the Declaration Of Independence,"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".-- Look how long it's taken us to get where we are and we still have far to go. I love the "Golden Rule" principle too.I will probably cry again this year as I see the flag,hear the music, remember those still in uniform and look around and realize how good it is to be free but never forget the price of freedom.
Shirley, thanks a million for all that wonderful information...you are so thoughtful and kind to always share wonderful things with us. Everything you write is a treasure! Lorraine
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY EVERYONE!!!!!
I might wear red, white, and blue.
That's a Good Spirit! Good idea too. I think I'll find something Red White & Blue to wear to the local Parade!
I always go and cheer for our troops and patriots.
"Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKean was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr, noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot about what happened in the Revolutionary War. We didn't fight just the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government! Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't. So, take a few minutes this year while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid".
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I am humbled by these men and their families. May they be resting in peace knowing their actions will never be forgotten. They were America's first soldiers and patriots.
This is really a subject that could take me a long while to talk about. Thanks Shirley for all you have written, it's wonderful! With our lives being slowly but surely usurped of all freedoms we have grown up with, it's more important now than ever before to stand by our principles that we are a free people and we not only owe it to ourselves but we owe it to the world to be a nation who does give freedom a chance to ring in the hearts and lives of all peoples. I'm not going to get into anything political here, because...well, it's just not the place.
We are a people who, when given the freedoms we were born with, can move mountains and do endless beautiful works for the world and end all hunger and strife in the world. I admire anyone who has gone to fight for the freedom of different nations and fight for their right as human beings, just to exist. Every man, woman and child on the planet deserves everything fair and righteous, and they deserve to have peace and happiness, and the right to have food on their tables, clothes on their back, love, and the God-given right to be what they want to be, provided they don't hurt other people to do it. When I see the lack of freedom the average person on the planet has, it bothers me very much. We, as human beings on earth, have a right to live our lives to the best of our abilities, in a righteous way, of course.
I only wish for people to be happy, live in peace and love one another as they love themselves, and God, or their highest form of beliefs.
Kyle wrote the famous verse: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"...yes...if all people, including leaders, would follow this wonderful set of words, then it truly would be a beautiful world, and we would have peace, and love as it was intended.
How I will celebrate the 4th? unfortunately I have to work...so my celebrating will be earlier, and I'm going to go to the beach tomorrow, and enjoy some cool weather!
How do I contribute to Freedom? I try my very best to let people be free to do as they desire, to be themselves. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, and I try very hard to make as many people happy as possible. Is this doing something for Freedom? In my heart, I think so. I give to as many charities as possible for me to do, and I try my hardest to love one another.
GOD SAVED THE UNION Something to think about this 4th of July. Abraham Lincoln deeply feared that the republic could collaspe. He turned to GOD for help. Just feel the emotionin in his words. Mr. Linclon,in a proclamation on March 30, 1863,declared a day of fasting and prayer."(I)t is the duty of nations as well as of men,"he wrote,"to own their dependence upon the overruling power of GOD...and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are only blessed whose GOD is the Lord. ... We have been the recients of the choicest bounties of heaven.We have been preserved,these many years,in peace and properity. We have grown in numbers , wealth and power as no other nation ever has grown , but we have forgotten GOD. We have forgotted the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace,and multiplied and enriched and stengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virture of our own. As we celibrate these days-lets us not forget where are true blessings come from. ...Kyle Sandvik
AMEN & AMEN to that!
freedom is so important to us all! Golden Rule & love your neighbor as yourself is a part of it. Where I live a town of 13,500 a large part of pop is African who have come to make a better life in Canada. So many of their homelands are in turmoil. We've not had any kind of war in Canada for a very long time so we sometimes forget that our freedom has be bought at a huge sacrifice.
So anytime you can treat your fellow man with dignity you do just that and from my own experience it is well worth the effort.
And having an ambassador spreading love and joy around the world is awesome. He, his orchestra and music touch the deep feelings of us all & if it can make a person see all humanity as brothers we just may achieve a better world that all can live in peace sincerely
Marianne Peters Canada
http://www.womensmemorial.org/
Great site with information on Women in the Service.