For This THEY Died. And Lived.

Awaits, this flag, for her "day of deliverance & devotion to God."
I love you John & A. Adams. (Alexandria, VA 11/2010)

Like nothing we will ever know

Did monolithic Statesmen show

In heart and deed and word bestowed,

Ignited flame, 20 annum old.

Through tumult of their apex risen

Launching us beneath a heaven

Prone to bless their sackcloth, shaven

Sacrifice.

Only remain embers, thus

Only probed by them. Not us,

Who's bawdy shallowness untrussed

Reveal in daily discourse, pus.

Now, the nations' poor here bidden,

Yet betrayed by wild lies hidden,

Gored by demon self sown freedoms;

Disabled by their cowed creeds striven. 

Only by some miracle

Can there ever be a cure

For deceptive, basal lures

of televised & world webbed worms.

Have mercy, LORD, but, 

It's your turn.

Wonderment? Or. 

End times scorn.

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That July 4th become a Day of Remembrance, allowing solemnity and brave orations lauding the obedience of those DUTY BOUND Men.

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Independence Day notes from PPT*

The Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776. On July 4, the delegates voted to accept it. 

On the day between, July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail: 

"I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty."

· Independence Day was first celebrated in Philadelphia on July 8, 1776.

· The Liberty Bell sounded from the tower of Independence Hall that day summoning citizens to gather for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence by Colonel John Nixon.

· When John Hancock had signed the Declaration of Independence with that well-known bold signature, he is supposed to have said, “King George ought to be able to read that!”

· The first public Fourth of July event at the White House occurred in 1804.

· The names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were withheld from the public for more than six months to protect those who signed. If independence had not been achieved, the treasonable act of the signers would have, by law, resulted in their deaths.

· It was not until 1941 that Congress declared the 4^th of July as a federal legal holiday.

· In July 1776 the estimated number of people living in the newly independent nation was 2.5 million. 

*Presidential Prayer Team.org