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I hope everyone enjoyed their Independence Day and took the time to reflect on it’s meaning instead of just taking at for what it’s worth: aday off of work spent bumming around the house and getting ready for a night of partying and boom-boom fireworks.



It seems like these days people are so against the war that they lack patriotism, but I do feel that I was lucky to be born an American and given all the rights that come with an American citizenship. I’ve done absolutely nothing to deserve those rights other than the being born here in America, but am thankful for the freedom that I have been granted and the amazing opportunities that come along with it.



And now, a passage from The Declaration of Independence…I hope you can take the time to read it and take to heart the words of our Founding Fathers. J Though I may not always agree with some of the acts of our government, I do feel an “egotistical” sense of pride in being granted these rights after doing nothing extraordinary to deserve these. Maybe all Americans should be required to take a citizenship test…?



At the same time, to contradict myself, I have a sense of shame for feeling even a little bit of pride in being American, because once again what astonishing deed did I do to deserve it. In short, Americans have no right to brag and say/believe they are better than others simply because of our American citizenship.



Ok, now really, here’s a passage from the Declaration of Independence:



“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 shown, 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.”



Happy belated birthday my dear America!