General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: goozgog on July 04, 2020, 05:42:57 AM
Title: Happy 4th of July !
Post by: goozgog on July 04, 2020, 05:42:57 AM
Happy 4th of July to all my American friends and family !
At Brodak's I met someone who spontaneously insisted that the United States is not the greatest country on the planet. Of course, he did not offer an superior alternative but he did ask me why the US had the right to make that claim.
I left that discussion in serious thought but before I took ten steps I knew the answer and it was just one word.
Hope.
The United States was founded on the conviction that a country should exist to benefit it's common citizens not an elite class or warlords. In 1776 it was a revolutionary idea that a person had the God given right to enjoy the fruits of their labor. That no power should exploit individual citizen's rights.
244 years later, The United States is still the only nation founded on that idea.
Propaganda might say otherwise, but common people all over the plant look to the United States of America as the shining light of hope where people can work to build a good life without fear.
No matter what struggles might be necessary to reach that ideal The United States of America still offers the pursuit of happiness and hope .
Happy 4th to all the people's of earth.
Cheers! - K.
Title: Re: Happy 4th of July !
Post by: C.T. Schaefer on July 04, 2020, 05:58:47 AM
Tough as it is sometimes Keith, that about sums it up! TS
Title: Re: Happy 4th of July !
Post by: John Lindberg on July 04, 2020, 06:36:52 AM
Thought I would chime in while I still can: Happy 4th of July! #^ #^ #^ #^
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Post by: Dwayne Donnelly on July 04, 2020, 06:59:33 AM
Happy 4th guys!! y1 #^
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Post by: Will Hinton on July 04, 2020, 07:34:35 AM
Patriots died to make it that way, more have died to keep it that way, let,s pray it isn't soon to be necessary for that to happen some more locally. We truly are that greatest nation ever conceived in our historic time! You said so very well, Keith, thank you.
Title: Re: Happy 4th of July !
Post by: john e. holliday on July 04, 2020, 10:13:55 AM
We are headed to a fire works show to celebrate the Fourth. Now if only our politicians would have studied history or if they did could remember it, it might be different now. What irritates me is those individuals who came to this great country for the benefits it offers and then try to change it to what they left. D>K
So HAPP FOURTH OF JULY ALL. H^^
Title: Re: Happy 4th of July !
Post by: RC Storick on July 04, 2020, 04:11:13 PM
https://youtu.be/nFt9D6ZIjOQ
https://youtu.be/YaxGNQE5ZLA
Title: Re: Happy 4th of July !
Post by: Bootlegger on July 04, 2020, 07:39:52 PM
Folks please google Kate Smith singing God Bless America for July 4th.. It will bring tears to your eyes...
Title: Re: Happy 4th of July !
Post by: pat king on July 04, 2020, 08:15:53 PM
The USA sure as hell isn't perfect. We can always work to make it better because we have the freedom to peacefully change the system. If the United States is such a bad place why are so many people trying to come here?
Pat
Title: Re: Happy 4th of July !
Post by: john e. holliday on July 04, 2020, 09:59:10 PM
Just got home from the Fourth of July celebration party. My son invited us to join them It was also to raise funds for autism. Once the rain stopped the band started after a young lady lead us in Pledge of Allegiance. Fire works were going off during the bands performance and after they were done the fire works really started going with all kinds of fire works. There people there from young kids to people my age. Even a simulated train for the kids to ride. Also people of all races there having fun, hugging, shaking hands and having a good time. H^^
Title: Re: Happy 4th of July !
Post by: Brett Buck on July 04, 2020, 11:19:29 PM
Folks please google Kate Smith singing God Bless America for July 4th.. It will bring tears to your eyes...
Googled it and came up with this Kate Smith performance on YouTube. I don't know what year it would have been recorded but great stuff, and from a wonderful time period when most people still "got it".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AOAH2lv3H0
Happy Independence Day to everyone. H^^
Title: Re: Happy 4th of July !
Post by: john e. holliday on July 06, 2020, 09:55:51 AM
Had to have been recorded in the forties when America needed it the most like these days when America needs GOD on our side. Read your BIBLE and history books and see what happens with out GOD or look at what is happening now. S?P