{"id":287070,"date":"2021-06-30T02:45:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cheers-to-american-glory-this-fourth-of-july\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T02:45:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:45:43","slug":"cheers-to-american-glory-this-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cheers-to-american-glory-this-fourth-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cheers to American glory this Fourth of July!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f3c325a301\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f3c325a301\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cheers-to-american-glory-this-fourth-of-july\/#Revolutionary_words_got_US\" >Revolutionary words got US<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cheers-to-american-glory-this-fourth-of-july\/#Shots_fired_on_NY\" >Shots fired on NY<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cheers-to-american-glory-this-fourth-of-july\/#Land_of_ours\" >Land of\u00a0ours!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cheers-to-american-glory-this-fourth-of-july\/#Try_to_pay_attention\" >Try to pay attention<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cheers-to-american-glory-this-fourth-of-july\/#Have_a_happy_Fourth_%E2%80%94_only_in_America_kids\" >Have a happy Fourth \u2014 only in America, kids.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Cheers to American glory this Fourth of July!<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Revolutionary_words_got_US\"><\/span>Revolutionary words got US<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re coming into July Fourth. The historic day our Godblessed country was born. Beyond hamburgers, cold hot dogs, warm soda and uninvited ants, it\u2019s a day for even young\u2019ns to respect Old Glory.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s Declaration of Independence was signed by 56 founding fathers \u2014 lawyers, jurists, merchants, plantation owners, men of means \u2014 fully aware their penalty could be death. Ten were pastors\u2019 sons. One, a shoemaker\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>rentice. Another, a servant. Benjamin Franklin, the eldest \u2014 age 70. South Carolina\u2019s Edward Rutledge, the youngest \u2014 26. Five were traitors, homes destroyed, lives lost in this new land\u2019s revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Not all forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4. John Hancock \u2014 before he had an insurance company \u2014 signed first. Most added their names Aug. 2. Changes were made between the declaration\u2019s adoption and when it became official. Thus, not all voters were signers. Delegates from the 13 colonies voted aye \u2014 no dissent \u2014 that \u201cthese United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.\u201d Other signatures were affixed later. I don\u2019t know why. Contrary to popular belief, I wasn\u2019t there at the time.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Shots_fired_on_NY\"><\/span>Shots fired on NY<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Brits sent masses of troops. Thousands of New Yorkers died fighting or in squalid prisons on ships. Our city, enemy headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>1783 following the Mother Country\u2019s surrender, George Washington marched our ill-clad, weather-beaten, ragtag Continental Army down Broadway to Battery Park, reclaiming New York, then bid farewell to his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>s at Fraunces Tavern.<\/p>\n<p>Now we celebrate the land of the pilgrims\u2019 pride, land where our fathers died, where from sea to shining sea we must give thought to purple mountain majesties, amber waves of grain, oceans white with foam, and a home where the deer and the antelope play somewhere sometime on some range someplace in Utah somehow.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Land_of_ours\"><\/span>Land of\u00a0<em>ours<\/em>!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This colony\u2019s fight for independence was against the largest armada on Earth \u2014 500 ships and a 30,000-man force. But we knew better. We did better then. We\u2019ll do better now. Our Founding Fathers and many of us who learned as we aged are trying to do better. We\u2019ll be better. OK, so maybe nobody but\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/04\/06\/roseanne-barr-calls-coronavirus-a-scheme-to-get-rid-of-all-my-generation\/?_ga=2.233320795.495482776.1624993384-1764175237.1572890003\">Roseanne Barr<\/a>\u00a0can sing the national anthem but .\u2009.\u2009. still .\u2009.\u2009. we are forever the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t like us? Then note how many legals, illegals, foreigners, tourists, hustlers, everybody who wants here. You see anyone lining up for Greenland? Looking to grab a timeshare in Venezuela?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"Don\u2019t let anyone tell you that America isn\u2019t the greatest country in the world.&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-18674873 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/AmericanFlag.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/AmericanFlag.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/AmericanFlag.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/AmericanFlag.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/AmericanFlag.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Don\u2019t let anyone tell you that America isn\u2019t the greatest country in the world.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Mike Segar<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, bless your country, your flag, pledge your Pledge of Allegiance to no other blessed nation on Earth where citizens exist free to disagree. Dislike a mayor? Should there be anyone in our laundry list of Democratic maybes, vote for them. It\u2019s your right. But never will we go under. We were born a nation under God.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Try_to_pay_attention\"><\/span>Try to pay attention<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In school we learned the name Patrick Henry who said: \u201cGive me liberty or give me death.\u201d In 2021, minus a crate of classrooms, young people don\u2019t even know who this was. One kid asked me if he lived in Queens.<\/p>\n<p>How about Connecticut\u2019s Nathan Hale, a 21-year-old Yale grad whose battalion joined George Washington against massive forces out to seize NYC? He was hanged after these last words: \u201cI only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How about let\u2019s all hope maybe Hollywood can possibly lure\u00a0Scarlett Johansson\u00a0to play Martha Washington. Then we\u2019ll see who knows what.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>Fellow Americans, don your knee britches, pull up the silken hose, glue on those powdered wigs, hum \u201cI\u2019m a Yankee Doodle Dandy\u201d and try a little relaxed <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> of golf. Or sex. Things you don\u2019t have to be good at to enjoy.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Have_a_happy_Fourth_%E2%80%94_only_in_America_kids\"><\/span>Have a happy Fourth \u2014 only in America, kids.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The historic day our Godblessed country was born. Beyond hamburgers, cold hot dogs, warm soda and uninvited ants, it\u2019s a day for even young\u2019ns to respect Old Glory. 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