Remembrance

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Fredkrueger100

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As we celebrate our independence I can't help but think back on this country when it won its independence from England. Thousands of people lost their lives to help achieve freedom from the crown. Sadly many today don't give much thought to the people who sacrificed everything so we could live freely. I see everyday the constant assault from our corrupt government to try and dismantle what our forefathers worked so hard to attain and it sickens me. One example is the California governor signing 6 anti gun bills to chip away at the citizens supposed inalienable rights. These kinds of things aren't going to stop as long as we the people allow it to. I am saddened and also mad that this country has fallen so far. Some people don't believe in God and that is fine, but our founders did. This country has gotten so far away from God and as a result we are seeing the consequences of it. I pray everyday that we can overcome all the evil in this world and recover from the destruction that our corrupt government has wrought upon us. Our founders were ready to die and meet the creator for this country. I don't know of any in our government that are willing to die for this nation. The same could be said about the citizens. Run me down for posting this if you like. I am just tired of seeing this country being ripped apart everyday. This is still the greatest nation on earth but for how much longer? In closing let us all remember the sacrifices that the men and woman of this country have made so we can be free.


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, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.


We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.


God bless the United States.
 

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Historian David Kennedy wrote of the minority Patriots that "Seldom have so few done so much for so many." They were willing to sacrifice life and fortune for the preservation of rights and implementation of self government.

Unlike most politicians today they were willing to put all on the line. George Washington leading the attack on Trenton and a charge at Princeton and later President James Madison (not usually thought of as a warrior) with only two dueling pistols rode out to meet the British army marching toward Washington, D.C. Then the thousands of farmers and tradesman that endured winters with no socks and little food while their families and businesses suffered.

American independence changed the world.

 

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It may come as a shock to some, but America does not have the corner of the market with God and never did. All men are created equal *

* excludes Africans, Native Americans, and women.
 

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