Happy 4th of July

 

Happy 4th of July !!

The Third

 The 3rd of July, the day before the United States greatest celebration of our country.  

I was watching the news this morning and a reporter was talking about John Adams and a letter her wrote to his wife on the 3rd of July.  

Here is an excerpt from that letter:

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. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with4 Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.

You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not.—I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.—Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will triumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

These words of wisdom apply today just as they did in 1776.

God Bless America

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