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Happy 4th of July! 🎆

[Peter Tuchman @EinsteinoWallSt]

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY 🇺🇸

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Happy Independence Day!

There’s a story from the end of the Revolutionary War I want to tell as we celebrate America’s 250th Birthday, and it’s one everyone in the world can learn from.

George Washington, at that moment, after commanding the American forces to victory, was the most powerful man in the new country. Many people talked about making him King of America.

Across the ocean, King George was sitting with an American painter, and asked what he thought Washington would do now that the war was ending. The painter said he believed he would go back to his farm.

The King said, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

As the war officially ended, Washington came to speak to Congress and said, “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of Action.” He returned his commission they’d given him in 1775 - after more than 8 years of leading the Americans to victory without pay, and he was home at Mount Vernon for Christmas.

Of course, he was elected as our first President a few years later, and after two terms, showed the same selflessness again when he willingly gave up his power and went back to Mount Vernon again.

That’s true greatness. He had all the power in the world. But power, alone, does not make you great.

Washington’s greatness came from being a true servant - to a cause much bigger than himself. His greatness was his complete lack of selfishness.

The whole story of American Independence is a story of selflessness. It’s a story of people who set their self-interest aside and worked for each other.

We’ve all heard the line about “We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

Apparently, Ben Franklin might have actually never said that.

But that’s fine, because the same mentality is right there in the last line of the Declaration of Independence, published on this day 250 years ago:

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

We mutually pledge to each other.

No one was in this alone. No one was in it for themselves. This was a group of people with different backgrounds who were in it for each other.

Today is a reminder: greatness comes from what we do for each other, never what we do for ourselves.

That’s a lesson that applies no matter what country you call home.

It’s a lesson that doesn’t require any law passed by a politician, because, let’s be honest, if you’re waiting for selfless politicians, I really hope you are not holding your breath.

All of us have the power to be there for the people around us. For our families and friends. For our neighbors. For everyone.

All of us can reach for greatness.

It’s as simple as looking beyond yourself, seeing past the mirror, picking your eyes up from your phone, and pledging to be there for each other.

Happy Fourth. May you all find your own version of greatness today by lifting each other up.

Lift up your neighborhood. Lift up America. Lift up the World.

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[Peter Tuchman @EinsteinoWallSt]

What a day, @NYSE to the moon, LITERALLY 😂

Incredible to have the @NASAArtemis II crew come to the floor today 🚀

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@EinsteinoWallSt 🥳🎉

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@EinsteinoWallSt See to believe 🫨

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AFC NORTH CHAMPS!!!!!

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Happy New Year, Tokyo 🇯🇵 🎊

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On this day 50 years ago, The Terrible Towel was born.

📝: https://t.co/m0QwGW1cr0

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 🎄🌟

[Baltimore Ravens @Ravens]

Merry Christmas 💜

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Merry Christmas, #CowboysNation!

[Pittsburgh Steelers @steelers]

Merry Christmas, Steelers Nation! 🎄

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MVS hauls in the TD!

📲 Stream on NFL+: https://t.co/szceXBjRdr

[National WWII Museum @WWIImuseum]

Eighty-four years ago today, Imperial Japan launched a stunning surprise attack on the US fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 2,400 American lives were lost in the assault. In this video from our Oral History Collection, WWII veteran Roy "Swede" Boreen recalls that morning.

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0700 Hours USS ARIZONA Pearl Harbor.
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[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

#OnThisDay in 1941, Doris “Dorie” Miller, a mess attendant aboard the battleship USS West Virginia, carried the injured captain and other shipmates to safety during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

When enemy planes swooped down, he stood behind an anti-aircraft gun and began firing, despite no prior training. He became the first Black seaman to receive the Navy Cross for valor, and a Navy recruiting poster featured him with the slogan, “above and beyond the call of duty.”

Before 1943 ended, a torpedo struck his ship, the Liscome Bay, killing Miller and more than 600 other crew members. Three decades later, the Navy named a ship after him.

Cuba Gooding Jr. portrayed Miller in the 2001 film, “Pearl Harbor,” and a statue has been built in his honor in his hometown of Waco, Texas. The Navy has since honored him by naming a new aircraft carrier after him.

“He died as he lived, an American sailor defending his nation, shoulder to shoulder with his shipmates, until the end,” Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said. “Dorie Miller stood for everything that is good about our nation. His story deserves to be remembered and repeated wherever our people continue to stand the watch today. He’s not just the story of one sailor. It is the story of our Navy, of our nation and our ongoing struggle to form — in the words of our Constitution — a more perfect union.”
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