Desertfalcon
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It's a day early but I just wanted to wish a happy 4th of July to my fellow Americans on PDF! 
I will not be posting regularly, as I will be busy doing what most Americans do in this celebration; fun, fireworks, food, baseball, etc.! And like most Americans, we pause and honor the now 240 year grand experiment that is America. Never perfect, by any means, the history of my country is not the history of democracy, of liberty, of respect for equality among men. It is the 240 year history of the fight for democracy, for liberty, for equality. I come from one of those increasingly rare families who have been Americans for almost four centuries now. Tomorrow, I not only honor Independence Day, but my family's contribution to it as well. Below is the grave marker of one of them; Edward Jackson, my 4th great-grandfather. He fought with the 4th South Carolina Artillery in our struggle with the British in our War of Independence. An organization called the Daughters of the American Revolution, place fresh flowers and a little American flag on his grave, for every 4th of July.
I'll close with an excerpt from our Declaration of Independence and wish all of you on PDF, a pleasant weekend, no matter who you are!
"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, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,"
The British surrender at Yorktown
I will not be posting regularly, as I will be busy doing what most Americans do in this celebration; fun, fireworks, food, baseball, etc.! And like most Americans, we pause and honor the now 240 year grand experiment that is America. Never perfect, by any means, the history of my country is not the history of democracy, of liberty, of respect for equality among men. It is the 240 year history of the fight for democracy, for liberty, for equality. I come from one of those increasingly rare families who have been Americans for almost four centuries now. Tomorrow, I not only honor Independence Day, but my family's contribution to it as well. Below is the grave marker of one of them; Edward Jackson, my 4th great-grandfather. He fought with the 4th South Carolina Artillery in our struggle with the British in our War of Independence. An organization called the Daughters of the American Revolution, place fresh flowers and a little American flag on his grave, for every 4th of July.
I'll close with an excerpt from our Declaration of Independence and wish all of you on PDF, a pleasant weekend, no matter who you are!
"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, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,"
The British surrender at Yorktown
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