Happy Birthday America
Today we celebrate the revolutionaries from 1776. These men expected to face execution if their efforts failed. They sought to create a their own government. Imagine sitting around a room with a couple of your other pipe smoking, wig wearing friends and thinking to yourselves, "I hate this tax on tea. Maybe we should start our own government." (Does anyone actually know how high the tax was on tea?) I'm not sure if they realized what goes into establishing a new governing body, but however they did it, the United States has become the model for which other societies base their systems.
Today, on the 4th of July, Independence Day, our nation's birthday, think about what sacrifices and risks our forefathers assumed and the great feats they accomplished fighting a revolution and building a new government. These men were the Che Guevaras, the Marxs, the Lennins, the Castros of their day. I tip my hat to these revolutionaries, and today we honor them and wish America a Happy Birthday.
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