US ARMY, 1977- 2001
COLD WAR, DESERT SHIELD/STORM. COMBAT VET
DISABLED VETERAN
I WORKED FOR WHAT I HAVE, WORK FOR YOUR OWN HAPPINESS
NO PORN, NO CRYPTO,
@ColorApril@AprilSpark1890 If it could be done, and I really wish that it could, stop paying them, cut their funds off no paychecks for congress and everyone associated with it.
No Limousine Rides, No Special Perks at the Airport, They MUST GO THROUGH TSA.
They are Congress Members not the President
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Trump and Angus. An unstoppable force of rock n roll wrapped up in patriotism. Play the hell out of those bagpipes Mr. President. YOU ROCK!!!
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250 yrs ago, in 1776, on the fourth of July, a group of men met in Philadelphia and made one of the biggest decisions anyone could ever make.
They were in the middle of a war with Britain, and they voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence, telling the world that the American colonies were breaking away and becoming their own free country.
These guys were not all famous generals or anything. A lot of them were just regular folks who had had enough of being pushed around (sound familiar) by a king who lived thousands of miles away and did not care what they thought.
The paper they approved that day, mostly put together by Thomas Jefferson, said some pretty amazing things. It said that all people are created equal and that we all have rights that come from being human, rights to life and to liberty and to going after happiness in our own way. It also said that the only reason governments exist is to protect those rights for the people, and if a government starts taking those rights away or ignoring the people, then the people have the right to change things or even start over with something better. (I think we should all keep that last part in mind)
When they signed that document they were taking a huge risk because if the British army won the war they could have been hanged for treason. But they signed it anyway. They believed so strongly in the idea of freedom and self rule that they were willing to put everything on the line for it. What they did that day gave the American fighters a real purpose to hold onto during all the hard times and losses that came later in the war. It turned a fight against taxes and unfair laws into something much bigger, a fight for a whole new way of living where regular people got to have a voice. And that idea did not stop with America winning the war. Over the last two hundred and fifty years those same words have given strength to people in other countries who wanted their own freedom or more fairness in how they were governed.
Today on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary we are still talking about it because it reminds us that freedom is not something that just happens and stays forever. It takes work and it takes people who are willing to stand up when things are not right. The men in that Philadelphia hall showed us what it looks like to choose courage over comfort, and they gave us a country and a set of values that we are still trying to live up to and protect all these years later.
@AllieJade1@its_The_Dr Have you ever been in a house where it looks like that???
The smell alone is enough to make you want to leave.
I know people who live like that, and it isn't pretty.