posted on July 3, 2008 07:12:31 PM new
Here we are again, celebrating another year of our independence. There will be parties, barbeques, fireworks and family. We'll spend the day talking about how fortunate we are to live in this country and how thankful we are to the veterans of all the wars that made our freedom possible and we'll all mean it....
On the 5th we'll all go back to our normal lives of rising gas prices, fighting between liberals and conservatives over the upcoming election, griping about the way ebay is headed and worrying about our businesses. We'll be back to being ordinary, everyday Americans.
For my money being an ordinary, everyday American beats the absolute hell out of being an ordinary, everyday individual anywhere else. Nowhere else on earth can you find the kinds of freedoms we enjoy. Nowhere else is the medical care as advanced as here. Nowhere else in this world do you find the kind of compassion and giving attitude that Americans possess.
We Americans are a totally unique bunch, unmatched anywhere in the world. We will give and give indefinitly and without question to those in need anywhere in the world. Tick us off and we'll bury you.
I, for one am more than proud to be an American and can't imagine being anything else.
posted on July 3, 2008 07:25:53 PM new
Same to you, Capolady! The weather has been so crazy this summer I'm not quite sure what to expect for tomorrow. No matter. We'll still have our cookout. I have one tomorrow and two on Saturday. And, yes, this is a great country to live in. If you think our gas prices are high, in the UK they pay the equivalent of $10 US dollars per gallon!! You can then be a little thankful that our prices are what they are.
posted on July 3, 2008 09:02:41 PM new
Penny - You're sweet! Happy belated Canadian birthday! A relation (distant cousin I believe) was a former First Prime Minister of Canada - Sir John Alexander McDonald. I still have family in Victoria BC.
posted on July 4, 2008 08:27:56 AM new
Stick with me, there's a point to this story.
I was telling my mother-in-law how, when I was 16, I was sent to France as an exchange student. It was both my first extended absence from home and the first time out of the U.S.
When my return flight landed in New York, I wanted to kiss the ground, I was so thrilled and happy to be back home where people you don't even know treat you with kindness and respect. (By the way, for all their reputation for being rude, New Yorkers are some of the most helpful people on the planet.)
My MIL laughed and said she feels like kissing the tarmac everytime she returns from a trip abroad. Dorothy had it right: There's no place like home.
A lot of people whose names aren't on the Declaration of Independence gave their lives so we their descendents could be free to shape our own destinies. Considering what they sacrificed and how little is asked of most of us these days, I feel humbled and awed.
fLufF
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P.S. Rent _John Adams_ from Netflix if you haven't already!
Free jewelry from Etsy seller in exchange for your advice...
posted on July 4, 2008 10:04:32 AM new
Woops! I almost forgot my "every 4th of July" traditional post on eBay Outlook of Baby Sutton in her flag dress.
Hope all of you have a great 4th! -----o----o----o----o----o----o----o----o
“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
posted on July 4, 2008 05:46:40 PM new
Fluffy: just finished the Adams 3-cd from Netflix last week. Two scenes will never leave me: the tar and feathering and the treatment for breast cancer.
Yipes. It made the revolution very real. Very well done.
Beth
posted on July 7, 2008 08:48:12 AM new
From a first generation American (moi) I love The USA!
I have nothing against Germany , however am oooooo so glad my parents took the ship and crossed the pond . They entered through Ellis Island. (they did not break and enter)
I do like to visit Europe but for Christ's sake ya think they would learn how to get a
normal (in our eyes) size frig. My relatives are not poor, they live in a very nice home, they own a car dealership-Peugeot.
There refrigerator is what we would call "dorm" size.
They scoot to the market every day, even though it is beastly cold in the winter.
posted on July 7, 2008 09:00:40 PM newThere refrigerator is what we would call "dorm" size.
And they have those tiny washer/dryer all in one machines I bet, too.
Silly things. We were staying in an apartment at The Athenaeum in London. It had one of those. Two pairs of jeans, ran all night and they still weren't dry in the morning.
fLufF
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The land of the brave and the home of sensible laundry products
You probably won't want to wear these 22 kt solid gold and diamond shoes to the beach...
