Independence Day

Wanted to take a moment and say, Happy Independence Day to everyone. This brings up one of my pet peeves, which is the phrase "happy Fourth of July." I keep saying that one of these years on Christmas I'm going to tell everyone, "Happy 25th of December." But that is all beside the point. The point for today is just to remember our Nation, our Founding Fathers, and most importantly, what it all stands for. Here is a small section of the Declaration of Independence that exemplifies what our Nation is founded upon: "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..." And over the centuries there have been a great many men and women who have given their lives to preserve these principles, our Nation, our Government, and our very way of life. From Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure..." This is a very fitting question today, with terrorists and foreign despots trying to destroy us from without, and socialists and open borders people doing their level best to destroy us from within, how long can our Nation endure? I for one Thank God, and feel very blessed to live in the USA and feel strongly that this is the greatest form of human government that the world has ever known, and hope and pray that the good people fight the good fight to make sure that it endures as long as possible.