Independence Day - Cherish it

[thatmguy]

Be sure to take the time to reflect on what July 4 stands for.

I hope it is not just another day off work for some of you. Realize the sacrifices made, and the reasons why this day came to be.

Strive to understand the true meaning of the Declaration of Independence. Try not to allow someone else to interpret it for you. You will be surprised at the difference.

We live in a country that is like no other in the world.

Work every day to keep it that way. Protect it. Love it.

 

[AntDog]

Darned right! We live in the biggest, baddest country of 'em all! Land of the Free - Home of the Brave!! I see on T.V. every day some other crap going on in other countries that just makes me want to throw up. I know we all have reason to b*tch once in a while, but America is definitely the place for me!!

We are FAR from being opressed or mistreated by our own government! It happens all the time in far away lands - let's not forget just how lucky we are. And especially lets not forget the men who fought, and those who paid the ultimate price to protect this great land and make this nation free.

GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.

 

[Stuart]

I wish more American's would read the Declaration of Independence especially the reference to our Creator and learn that this was never intended to be a secular state.

It's strange that Jefferson who had nothing to do with writing the Constitution, wasn't even in the county at the time, and in his lifetime was never treated as an expert on the first amendment is today treated like he wrote it while the real authors and their intent are ignored. Jefferson would not agree with what has been done in his name, he put Bibles in the schools he would never have taken them out.

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have
removed the conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever."
-- Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, third President of the United States of America

Are those the words of a man who wanted a wall of seperation of church and state (a phrase btw he used only once, in a PRIVATE letter, and which has been taken entirely out of context). No liberal wil ever quote those words of Jefferson, or what he said about the citizens right to keep and carry firearms or that one generation doesn't have the right to put another in debt or anyt of the other things he wrote which contradict their agenda.

"The reason Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only
religion in the world that deals with the heart."
-- Thomas Jefferson