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I used to love this day, I used to help my grandmother make Cupcakes and Cakes to celebrate this Birthday....I loved that there was a Holiday to celebrate Rebelling....Revolution...Change....For me....it honored that they sent a Letter to King George telling him his Regime of Tyranny was confronted by The People.....It saddens me that Now In Our History we cannot effectively confront the Current Tyrant or His Criminal Regime....I think the Founding Fathers would dissappointed in us and how we have not done enough to protect the Declaration or the Constitution.....( More on Independence Day is posted over at Watergate Summer).
My Son saw his first Fireworks over Lake Union,Seattle ....as a baby...many years ago...he is a teenager now...so that seems like Anicent History to him....but it as memory I will and do treasure....and I pray and hope that I have taught him enough...about What Matters.Videos below are dedicated today.....
Lake Union Seattle Fireworks.....
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Dixie Chicks singing....National Anthem....really stunning version....
Dixie Chicks and the Real Story behind their Patriotism....Trailer" Shut Up and Sing"...make you think twice about "Freedoms" that we suposedly have....
Eddie Vedder singing No More War....
4 comments:
We have come to believe that freedom is proportional to the numbers in a bank account. It isn't but what one believes is what one focus' on.
Freedom is not individual, personal or meant for a very select few. Not in the discourse on the freedom of a nation. Yet if that nation has removed itself from the principles of freedom, it can in no way be free.
We are free is a fools dream if the fool will not do what is necessary for the accomplishment of that statement. Who among us will stand and say "I will die, that my nation may live?" The resounding rejoinder is "Not I."
Yet there is hope for the nation in that there are some who will simply quietly stand on the principle that We the people...
that was so beautifully said Walking Man...it reminded me of Malcom X in some ways.....namaste to you...
Enigma-
I loved your post. Especially the Dixie Chicks.
But walking man really nailed it.
Thanks Dean...
the Walking Man always nails it....very wise soul that he is ....
good to see you....
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