There are many beautiful places in the world, America is the place I have been born and raised, even with all it faults it has done right by me...Happy Birthday.....
-- Edited by GENECOP on Thursday 4th of July 2013 04:00:34 AM
Roz said
11:18 AM Jul 4, 2013
God Bless America!
Cowdog353 said
01:17 PM Jul 4, 2013
What a great country we have! Proud to be a flag waving patriot. May god bless America.
Hope everyone has a great day celebrating.
Leaving tomorrow morning for my journey to the bad lands.
Jim
Jim01 said
01:33 PM Jul 4, 2013
Thanks Gene,
Linda and I would like to wish all of the RV-Dreams family a very safe and happy 4th of July.
Jim
bigboomer said
02:06 PM Jul 4, 2013
Gene nailed it. No other place on earth I would rather be...May GOD continue to Bless this Great land of ours and may GOD continue to Bless our troops who help secure our Freedoms every day!
scrappy said
02:41 PM Jul 4, 2013
Happy Fourth, everyone!
If you are traveling, be safe!
Its pouring here in the Tennessee Valley...........and we have a campground full of kids.........and doubt the pool will be open. Guessing its gonna be a crazy day here at the KOA!
Happy birthday, America!
Terry and Jo said
04:49 PM Jul 4, 2013
Well, I'll be a bit tacky myself. Every country on earth has a July 4th, so I'm going to say.....
.....Happy Independence Day!!!!
As already mentioned, this is a great country. I've had the distinct "pleasure" to have been stationed overseas during my short military career. From what I'd seen then and what I've read and seen since, I have to agree that I doubt that any other country can compete with the blessings that we have here in America.
Since Gene has posted one video of the national anthem, I'll add another one. While everyone knows about Whitney Houston and her talents, this rendition was done by a group of 5 young ladies at a basket ball game. They are called the Cactus Cuties, and along with other groups, are a part of the Cactus Theater in Lubbock, Texas. These young ladies give me goose bumps every time I hear this.
Terry
PIEERE said
08:37 PM Jul 4, 2013
Happy Fourth to all of you!!! Not to fun here 25 miles east of the Music City. Started raining this AM and not expected to let up until Sunday' 4-6" total.
scrappy said
08:41 PM Jul 4, 2013
PIEERE wrote:
Happy Fourth to all of you!!! Not to fun here 25 miles east of the Music City. Started raining this AM and not expected to let up until Sunday' 4-6" total.
Chattanooga is getting what you had earlier. Our chances of rain? 100% until tomorrow evening. YUCK. This is one of those days I am thankful that all four dogs actually like to lay in their crates.....they are watching me being the kitchen whiz that I am (haha).........waiting for tidbits............
bjoyce said
08:50 PM Jul 4, 2013
We are staying at a campground on an Indian Reservation, so it is not a quiet place with lots of fireworks going on. The city, Poulsbo, WA, not on the res, does its fireworks the last working day before Independence Day, so we went to see them last night. The fireworks bought on the reservations were going for a while before the official ones, and started again when the official ones were over. The official ones did go higher and there were some more impressive ones.
Personally I can't figure out why no other country will copy our constitution, since it is working well. At least I think it works, we can be down on our government, but we seem to come out of our funks after a while. Other countries seem to want parliaments or strong presidents, not our checks and balances. Just think if Egypt would have used our constitution. I suspect it would have its elected government running the show today instead of a military coup.
Alie and Jims Carrilite said
04:00 PM Jul 5, 2013
I'm a little late on posting this, but I just found it on another forum I frequent..
An independence day message to all: In 1775, in taverns, living rooms, and small halls around the colonies, selfless men of courage brought forth their honor, religion, and conviction to stand up to abuses that were affecting their fellow citizens. They lay on the line everything, their life work, wealth, and their very lives to start a path to true freedom. This path, this idea, this ideal, was so powerful that it convinced most men who signed to give up their slaves, and to treat even the lowest of society with dignity and respect. Most died penniless. Most died painfully. All gave everything for your freedom. Many since then have followed in those noble footsteps. Today we raise a toast and celebrate such magnificent lives that these men and women led, for freedom.
bjoyce said
04:26 PM Jul 5, 2013
I saw this yesterday.
From President Calvin Coolidge’s “Address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence” in Philadelphia, July 5, 1926:
It was not because it was proposed to establish a new nation, but because it was proposed to establish a nation on new principles, that July 4, 1776, has come to be regarded as one of the greatest days in history. Great ideas do not burst upon the world unannounced. They are reached by a gradual development over a length of time usually proportionate to their importance. This is especially true of the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence. Three very definite propositions were set out in its preamble regarding the nature of mankind and therefore of government. These were the doctrine that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that therefore the source of the just powers of government must be derived from the consent of the governed.
If no one is to be accounted as born into a superior station, if there is to be no ruling class, and if all possess rights which can neither be bartered away nor taken from them by any earthly power, it follows as a matter of course that the practical authority of the Government has to rest on the consent of the governed. While these principles were not altogether new in political action, and were very far from new in political speculation, they had never been assembled before and declared in such a combination. But remarkable as this may be, it is not the chief distinction of the Declaration of Independence. . . . It was the fact that our Declaration of Independence containing these immortal truths was the political action of a duly authorized and constituted representative public body in its sovereign capacity, supported by the force of general opinion and by the armies of Washington already in the field, which makes it the most important civil document in the world.
There are many beautiful places in the world, America is the place I have been born and raised, even with all it faults it has done right by me...Happy Birthday.....
-- Edited by GENECOP on Thursday 4th of July 2013 04:00:34 AM
God Bless America!
Thanks Gene,
Linda and I would like to wish all of the RV-Dreams family a very safe and happy 4th of July.
Jim
Happy Fourth, everyone!
If you are traveling, be safe!
Its pouring here in the Tennessee Valley...........and we have a campground full of kids.........and doubt the pool will be open. Guessing its gonna be a crazy day here at the KOA!
Happy birthday, America!
Well, I'll be a bit tacky myself. Every country on earth has a July 4th, so I'm going to say.....
.....Happy Independence Day!!!!
As already mentioned, this is a great country. I've had the distinct "pleasure" to have been stationed overseas during my short military career. From what I'd seen then and what I've read and seen since, I have to agree that I doubt that any other country can compete with the blessings that we have here in America.
Since Gene has posted one video of the national anthem, I'll add another one. While everyone knows about Whitney Houston and her talents, this rendition was done by a group of 5 young ladies at a basket ball game. They are called the Cactus Cuties, and along with other groups, are a part of the Cactus Theater in Lubbock, Texas. These young ladies give me goose bumps every time I hear this.
Terry
Chattanooga is getting what you had earlier. Our chances of rain? 100% until tomorrow evening. YUCK. This is one of those days I am thankful that all four dogs actually like to lay in their crates.....they are watching me being the kitchen whiz that I am (haha).........waiting for tidbits............
An independence day message to all: In 1775, in taverns, living rooms, and small halls around the colonies, selfless men of courage brought forth their honor, religion, and conviction to stand up to abuses that were affecting their fellow citizens. They lay on the line everything, their life work, wealth, and their very lives to start a path to true freedom. This path, this idea, this ideal, was so powerful that it convinced most men who signed to give up their slaves, and to treat even the lowest of society with dignity and respect. Most died penniless. Most died painfully. All gave everything for your freedom. Many since then have followed in those noble footsteps. Today we raise a toast and celebrate such magnificent lives that these men and women led, for freedom.
I saw this yesterday.
From President Calvin Coolidge’s “Address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence” in Philadelphia, July 5, 1926:
It was not because it was proposed to establish a new nation, but because it was proposed to establish a nation on new principles, that July 4, 1776, has come to be regarded as one of the greatest days in history. Great ideas do not burst upon the world unannounced. They are reached by a gradual development over a length of time usually proportionate to their importance. This is especially true of the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence. Three very definite propositions were set out in its preamble regarding the nature of mankind and therefore of government. These were the doctrine that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that therefore the source of the just powers of government must be derived from the consent of the governed.
If no one is to be accounted as born into a superior station, if there is to be no ruling class, and if all possess rights which can neither be bartered away nor taken from them by any earthly power, it follows as a matter of course that the practical authority of the Government has to rest on the consent of the governed. While these principles were not altogether new in political action, and were very far from new in political speculation, they had never been assembled before and declared in such a combination. But remarkable as this may be, it is not the chief distinction of the Declaration of Independence. . . . It was the fact that our Declaration of Independence containing these immortal truths was the political action of a duly authorized and constituted representative public body in its sovereign capacity, supported by the force of general opinion and by the armies of Washington already in the field, which makes it the most important civil document in the world.