4th of July Rememberance

[asmo]

As our country celebrates its 236th birthday today, July 4, we will gather with family and friends. It’s a time to not only celebrate a great nation, it’s also an opportunity for all of us to pause, reflect, and remember those who have given so much to establish and maintain the liberties we enjoy each day.

Today, thank a veteran, visit a family who is separated from their loved ones, hold up a flag, or pause to reflect. For those of you that have served, or are still serving, I want to give you a deep and heartfelt thank you. Thank you for allowing me those freedoms that we celebrate today, and rely on each day.

So as you celebrate with family and friends, watching the fireworks explode overhead, please join me in remembering the nation’s Founding Fathers and every serviceman and woman since who have bravely fought, risked, and lost their lives for our independence. We owe them all a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid

[CO Hugh]

Well said, the real reason for Independence Day.

[Skully]

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!

[Robby30-06]

Very well put...big +1

[Sharpienads]

Thank you to all that have served or are currently serving!

America isn't exceptional because we're just somehow better than everybody else, we're exceptional because 236 years ago today, brave men stood up to tyranny and vowed to fight back against oppression, creating a nation founded on the rule of law, individual liberty, and the belief 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." It is the ability for a free people to flourish that makes us exceptional, the idea that when people are free to conduct themselves however they see fit in a civil society, to conduct commerce in a free market, to be the masters of their domain, and the feeling of personal obligation to help others in need that makes us exceptional.

None of this would be possible without the sacrifices of our troops, their families, their communities, and their nation.

Let us never forget, let us never give in to tyranny again, lest all those who came before us effort's be in vain.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

--Thomas Paine, 1777