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It’s Called Independence Day

By AmericanElephant on July 4, 2009

One of the things you may notice is that I *try* to refrain from calling today the Fourth of July. Today is the Fourth of July, but that label doesn’t do justice to the history or importance of this day.

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Independence

By AmericanElephant on July 4, 2009

What a wonderful day. Independence Day. A day where great men before us took the brave course to stand against their government and formally declare this land and its people free.

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…where men were free

By AmericanElephant on July 3, 2008

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. –President Ronald Reagan

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