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This week we’ll be gathering for backyard BBQs and watching
fireworks. The blog DC Whispers sums up what it is we are celebrating:
282 years ago this week 56 brave
met to deliberate and in doing so they risked everything. A recent decree from
King George declared them traitors. If they did not cease any and all attempts
to thwart the authority of British rule they were to be put to death –
effective immediately. These men did not cease. Instead, they voted and then
signed what was both a Declaration of Independence and a declaration of war
against the greatest military power in the world.
If the rebellion failed they would
surely hang.
America was born.
Happy Independence Day.
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