HAPPY FREEDOM DAY AMERICA!!! I WILL UPDATE THIS IN THE MORNING BECAUSE ITS MIDNIGHT WOO!!! fireworks.... too loud..... need to sleep- IN YOUR FACE SHADOW. USA WON & YALL LOST SO HA! GUESS WHAT??? ITS THE MORNING!!!! heres the update: so i dont know about yall, but when I was in 3rd grade my teacher spent a whole day teaching us about the US National anthem and what the words meant. I guess its kinda just stuck with me for life because now whenever I hear it i always think back to the story. IF YOU DONT KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE US ANTHEM GO GOOGLE IT ITS AN AWESOME STORY!! Really shows you how much the Americans love their flag and america. NEXT TIME YOU PROTESTERS WANT TO BURN AN AMERICAN FLAG THINK ABOUT WHAT IT REPRESENTS AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO DIES FOR IT!! ok that was overly dramatic IGNORE THE ABOVE COMMENT --- HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!! The day us Americans won our independence from great Britain. So here's a small thing I got from History: When the initial battles in the Revolutionary War broke out in April 1775, few colonists desired complete independence from Great Britain, and those who did were considered radical. (later PATRIOTS) By the middle of the following year, however, many more colonists had come to favor independence, thanks to GROWING HOSTILITY (see Shadow, did i or did i tell you?) against Britain and the spread of revolutionary sentiments such as those expressed in the bestselling pamphlet “Common Sense,” published by Thomas Paine in early 1776. (I still remember our unit of the Common Sense thing. My bro never stopped talking about it) On June 7, when the Continental Congress met at the Pennsylvania State House (later Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, the Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee introduced a motion calling for the colonies’ independence. Amid heated debate, Congress postponed the vote on Lee’s resolution, but appointed a five-man committee—including Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania and Robert R. Livingston of New York—to draft a formal statement justifying the break with Great Britain. (dun dun DUN) On July 2nd, the Continental Congress voted in favor of Lee’s resolution for independence in a near-unanimous vote (the New York delegation abstained, but later voted affirmatively). On that day, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that July 2 “will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival” and that the celebration should include “Pomp and Parade…Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other.” On July 4th, the Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence, which had been written largely by Jefferson. Though the vote for actual independence took place on July 2nd, from then on the 4th became the day that was celebrated as the birth of American independence. ----- The tradition of patriotic celebration became even more widespread after the War of 1812, in which the United States again faced Great Britain. In 1870, the U.S. Congress made July 4th a federal holiday; in 1941, the provision was expanded to grant a paid holiday to all federal employees. Over the years, the political importance of the holiday would decline, but Independence Day remained an important national holiday and a symbol of patriotism. Falling in mid-summer, the Fourth of July has since the late 19th century become a major focus of leisure activities and a common occasion for family get-togethers, often involving fireworks and outdoor barbecues. The most common symbol of the holiday is the American flag, and a common musical accompaniment is “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the national anthem of the United States. Which is the music I played in this project as well :D Also FUN FACT: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams BOTH died on July 4th!!! Coincidence?? I THINK NOT!! --- ENJOY~
