posted on July 3, 2001 10:39:14 PM new
The 4th of July is here! Is anybody doing anything exciting? After a good nights sleep we're going to the local park for a fun filled day of eating, visiting, playing games, swimming, more eating and fireworks! Can't wait!
Anyone got any good fourth stories?
posted on July 3, 2001 11:06:39 PM new
July 4th is my wedding anniversary. We never do anything fun,have to stay home and protect the house from the crazy neighbors and their bottle rockets. [they invariably land on our roof~gotta have the hose ready]
Nice of you all to celebrate with us. I especially like the fireworks!
posted on July 3, 2001 11:14:30 PM new
When we were kids we used to have pop bottle rocket fights on the fourth. We'd sit out on the piers at a local lake and shoot them at each other. Thank goodness, my kids can't do that since it's illegal now. But those fights sure were fun!
1) I'd like to stop celebrating the 4th of July and start celebrating Independence Day. Wouldn't it be more gooder if we had a 3 day holiday instead of just getting Wednesday off?
2) I miss the fireworks I could buy when I was a kid. Remember the cherry bombs, the M-80s, and silver bombs? Boy! Those were fun. I also got to use a firecracker called a "tumba rancho" when I was a kid in Venezuela. The "tumba rancho" translates into "knock's down a ranch", they were damn powerful. I know I won't see the fireworks again I saw in my youth, but they sure were fun.
posted on July 4, 2001 04:40:25 AM newWe hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creatorwith certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
posted on July 4, 2001 08:25:26 AM new
Happy Anniversary, rawbunzel!!!
And a Happy 4th to everyone!!
In our neck of the woods, the fireworks are set off from the bridges over the two lakes. Seems everyone in this area who owns a boat is out on one of the lakes enjoying the celebration. On a normal day, there are only a few boats that can be viewed when we're out on the lakes....but on the 4th they come out of the woodwork and there are hundreds.
[ edited by Linda_K on Jul 4, 2001 08:26 AM ]
posted on July 4, 2001 09:22:57 AM newDumbya gives us:
""Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I--it's--I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values."
--Visiting the Jefferson Memorial,
Washington, D.C., July 2, 2001
posted on July 4, 2001 02:27:50 PM new
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal..."
It should read "that all WHITE MEN are created equal..."
My white "Founding Mothers" were not created equal in the eyes of the "Founding Fathers" in the colonies. Nor were the "Founding Slave Mothers and Fathers" on this land. My colonist grandmothers didn't sign any documents or get their names on monuments in their towns of Windsor, Hartford or New Amsterdam. They worked the land, helped build the houses and take care of the children. You won't even see their names listed for many of the births of their children in civil records.
THEY should be thanked for doing the heavy work in the house & on the land while our
"Founding Fathers" went to orate, declare and sign!
It was only yesterday that women were "given" the right to vote and it looks as though some whites can still keep black people from voting even now!
The history books and holidays need to be changed to truly reflect our history, not the white male's version of it. JMHO.
The Diane Rehm show on NPR had an interesting author on yesterday. You can hear the show on the website I linked below.
"Roger Wilkins: Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism (Beacon)
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson changed the course of history in advocating freedom - yet at the same time, they were slave-owners. Historian Roger Wilkins talks about the ambivalent feelings he and other black Americans have about the founding fathers.
posted on July 4, 2001 03:33:07 PM new
Without getting into a debate, the Founders missed, perhaps, an historic opportunity to walk extra miles that no one had walked before. Fine, they didn't walk that far. But what can't be denied is that they did walk where no one had ever gone and yes, they even laid the groundwork for what was and what still is to come.
