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sheshe2

(87,308 posts)
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:32 PM Jul 2013

our Independence Day~ We will not go quietly into the night!

We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate ... our Independence Day!



Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind. That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!


Happy 4th to One and All at the BOG!

BOG
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our Independence Day~ We will not go quietly into the night! (Original Post) sheshe2 Jul 2013 OP
To me. this seems to fit! Lady Freedom Returns Jul 2013 #1
Oh, wow. This is wonderful. Thanks! freshwest Jul 2013 #3
Thank you for posting that our, sheshe2 Jul 2013 #4
Woo hoo! Love it! Thanks Sheshe! freshwest Jul 2013 #2
Today we celebrate ... our Independence Day! sheshe2 Jul 2013 #5
K & R SunSeeker Jul 2013 #6
United We Stand, she! This Land is Your Land This Land is My Land~ Cha Jul 2013 #7
What a beautiful gift you gave me~ sheshe2 Jul 2013 #8
"BOG Stronger now than yesterday!" Cha Jul 2013 #9
I had to find a place to post this~ sheshe2 Jul 2013 #10
Congratulations, Ms 6000! Cha Jul 2013 #11
20 Million~ WOW sheshe2 Jul 2013 #12
Yeah, and how about Cha Jul 2013 #13
The Obama's sheshe2 Jul 2013 #14

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
1. To me. this seems to fit!
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 12:06 AM
Jul 2013


When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.


Read full text @ http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

sheshe2

(87,308 posts)
4. Thank you for posting that our,
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 12:28 AM
Jul 2013

Declaration of Independence, The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

Brava, Lady Freedom!

As for Morgan Freeman, swoon~

Cha

(305,195 posts)
7. United We Stand, she! This Land is Your Land This Land is My Land~
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 01:01 AM
Jul 2013

We Will Survive! BOG

Just got back from the beach toasting our New Freedom in our Building and to our President who makes these 4th of Julys from 2009 to 2013.. very very Special!



http://theobamadiary.com/2013/07/05/this-land/#comments

sheshe2

(87,308 posts)
8. What a beautiful gift you gave me~
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 01:16 AM
Jul 2013

on our Independence Day!

This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land! So wonderful to see that video again.

We will survive Cha. Because as One Voice standing for our sweet country, we will be heard. We will make the changes our Country so desperately needs.

Cheers, I was on the beach toasting with you~ Kombucha Gingerade in hand!

BOG Stronger now than yesterday!

Cha

(305,195 posts)
9. "BOG Stronger now than yesterday!"
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 01:29 AM
Jul 2013
Cheers, I was on the beach toasting with you~ Kombucha Gingerade in hand!

Sweet! We had so much Good Fun! Our new neighbors are teachers who use to work and live in inner city Detroit. They have a wealth of interesting history and information. They're now teachers on Kaua'i and Mr is an art teacher and Mrs is a grade school teach. they've been married 35 years which is awesome!

It's the best Fourth of July I've had in really long time, she!

she

Cha

(305,195 posts)
11. Congratulations, Ms 6000!
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 10:48 PM
Jul 2013

I always stop for a sheshe post.. they're informative, brilliant, and funny.. so glad you're among us, she!!

This deserves a special pic or two..

President Obama, showing family resemblance to Malia now.



And, little Sasha and Malia~



I got these from The Obama Diary~ Which, btw, just got their 20 Millionth post from all over the World!

BOG

sheshe2

(87,308 posts)
12. 20 Million~ WOW
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 11:11 PM
Jul 2013

Amazing, or maybe not.

TOD is brilliant in what they do. The information at chips site is beyond compare.

Thank you so much for pointing me her way, Cha.

She is a breath of fresh air.

BOG

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