atwi80d
Starter
May Day and Flowers!
Posts: 119
|
Post by atwi80d on Jun 30, 2018 17:44:15 GMT -7
Hope you all have a great and a safe July 4th. If you travel, travel safe and sound. If you drink do not drive but if you drive do not drink. Chose a driver or a cab or Uber.
|
|
|
Post by End Zone on Jul 1, 2018 15:48:46 GMT -7
I think I got the July 4th history about right:
Mr. Thomas Paine wrote "Common Sense," a pamphlet in 1775, that rallied anti-British sentiment amongst Colonists. Pamphlets were about the only source of trusted communications in that era. Paine's anonymously written pamphlet is largely credited with stoking strong support for a guerrilla type skirmish led by General Washington that by 1776 resulted in General Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown on the Chesapeake and the happy Middle Atlantic Colonists' uproarious "Declaration of Independence" from the Crown some weeks later.
Mr. Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He would be right at home in the U.S. political climate today, maybe rooting for you know who!
Oh, for this Wednesday, July 4th, be safe and love the ones you are with!
|
|
|
Post by Zaz on Jul 2, 2018 10:58:03 GMT -7
I literally must be told its a national holiday otherwise I will drive to work and find an empty parking lot Dunno why. Holidays sneak up on me. Year is flyyying by
|
|