Happy Birthday, America!

[Drang]

While it is only 2222 hours here on the Left Coast, over on the Least Coast it has been 4 July for about 22 minutes now, and the only threads I have seen that reference the date are about deals and sales, and that gives baby George Washington a Sad, so here you go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ImC32pXDw

My wife was rather scandalized when we first started dating and I told her my favorite musical was 1776...
Not sure what she expected me to say...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds4dv4IS0PM

She texted me a while ago that she went out to run some errands this evening and saw a guy at the side of the road with a hand-drawn sign:
NEED FIREWRX
Happy B-Day USA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuQGx1H1Qh8

To all my fellow Americans, Happy Independence Day. Enjoy it. (I know those here will remember those who are serving and on duty despite the holiday, many of us were, or still are, in that category.)

[Bigghoss]

...the only threads I have seen that reference the date are about deals and sales, and that gives baby George Washington a Sad, so here you go.

What are you talking about? They're all for gun stuff.

[Drang]

What are you talking about? They're all for gun stuff.

And that's cool, and I have no problem with deals and sales in commemoration, especially if it's guns and booze and other Freedom-related items.

But no one was saying "'Merica!"

[TheNewbie]

God bless the greatest country in all of history. The world is blessed because of America and we are blessed to be lucky enough to live here.

[RJ]

Long may it wave.

[GAP]

Happy Birthday! Here’s an image I created and shared on social media; just in case anyone would like to repost it. :cool:

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[peterb]

Happy Birthday!

Someone at the CPSC has fun setting this up(see video):
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/03/625694709/this-july-4-dont-be-like-these-dummies-how-not-to-set-off-fireworks

[blues]

Long live the republic!

[LOKNLOD]

"..we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

Gives me goosebumps and those aren't tears, that's the fountain of freedom welling up.

[Greg]

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Apple Pie, Black Coffee and a .45 Colt.

Happy Birthday AMERICA!

[Stephanie B]

NPR’s traditional reading of the Declaration of Independence:

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/04/623836154/a-july-4-tradition-npr-reads-the-declaration-of-independence

[JohnO]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uE-tqe0xsQ



https://youtu.be/AuteyiYN6js

[UNM1136]

Drang

My wife simply must watch 1776 each and every 4th....I suspect one of the kids tossed our copy, so I went online, and learned rented via Amazon Prime the Director's Cut. Wife loved it, saying there were several scenes that she had never seen before...I didn't watch it with her because I was asleep preparing for all the fireworks calls on Graves tonight.

Sit Down John!

https://smile.amazon.com/1776-Restored-Directors-Howard-DaSilva/dp/B000067D1R/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1530782015&sr=8-3&keywords=1776

pat

[Drang]

Drang

My wife simply must watch 1776 each and every 4th....I suspect one of the kids tossed our copy, so I went online, and learned rented via Amazon Prime the Director's Cut. Wife loved it, saying there were several scenes that she had never seen before..
The song "Cool, cool, considerate men" was cut from the movie release, over fears that reference to "conservative" values would offend President Nixon. This is the one where John Livingston was celebrating the fact that John Adams was out of town.
Even in the Directors Cut the color is visibly off in this scene.
While most of the dialog in the play and movie is based on stuff someone said, a lot of it is based on debates that took place in pamphlets and broadsides, the social media of the day. The HBO mini series John Adams was a more accurate representation of what went on on the floor of congress on a day to day basis, i.e., not a lot...

John Adams may be history, but 1776 plays to the national mythology. I know which one I watch for pleasure.