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Old 07-02-2007, 09:28 PM
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Some views on July 4th and American Independence day from the Op Ed pages:

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Old 07-02-2007, 10:34 PM
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Some views on July 4th and American Independence day from the Op Ed pages:

Link here
Perhaps you meant to post this youtube link?:
http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...&search=Search

Or one of these?:
http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/FourthofJuly07/main.asp
http://cagle.com/news/FourthofJuly08/main.asp
http://www.caglepost.com/column/Donn...f+Freedom.html
http://www.caglepost.com/column.aspx?c=6923
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...v=rss_opinions
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/op...rssnyt&emc=rss

David's song was "interesting" but I remember the original.

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Old 07-02-2007, 11:20 PM
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"By Mannheim Steamroller and C. W. McCall"

That's fascinating to me.

C. W. McCall, who had the "hit" record called "Convoy" mentioned above, years ago was the mayor of Ouray, Colorado, a spectacular little town in the Uncompagre Mountains in Southwestern Colorado. It's on the beautiful highway that leads from Four Corners up through Silverton, Durango, Cortez and other wonderful small mountain towns.

We went there for July 4th several years in a row in the mid-80's, sometimes meeting guys I worked with from Detroit and San Francisco and their families.

The fireworks up the highway were great, and the daytime events, including a parade down "the" main street and contests between local volunteer firefighters really highlighted some of the traditional feeling of the holiday.

Happy Birthday, America and many happy returns.
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Old 07-03-2007, 01:21 AM
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HA, BUSTED! Is this what you watch on your spare time??
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Old 07-03-2007, 01:50 PM
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They have missed your subtlety but I caught it and you rule for this! Long live the LOL truck!
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Old 07-03-2007, 10:35 PM
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Happy Birthday to the country which allows us more freedoms that most of us ever realize. God Bless the USA!



PS: I plan to do my usual reading of the Declaration of Independence tomorrow morning. It's an amazing document, written and signed by patriots the kind of which our country so lacks today.
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Old 07-03-2007, 10:42 PM
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I loved the jibjab video.

I was just able to hear a 30 minute fireworks display and went outside, hoping to see it, but I couldn't see anything but flashes in the sky. Hopefully I'll see some tomrorow night.

I was flying on the 4th of July once and saw a lot of fireworks from up in the plane and it was very cool.

Happy Birthday USA!
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Old 07-03-2007, 10:54 PM
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I was flying on the 4th of July once and saw a lot of fireworks from up in the plane and it was very cool.
I'd forgotten I was flying into LaGuardia once on July 4 and saw some the fireworks along the river.

Two summers ago, I was living in a residential hotel near the UN and was able to watch the Macys fireworks from a room the hotel made available on the top floor.

Spectacular.
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Old 07-03-2007, 11:03 PM
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Twice, I was at Alpha Gam conventions on the 4th. In Atlanta, 2001, we could see the fireworks from the hotel and it seemed like we were even with them! I think I was on the 22nd floor. In Chicago in 1993, we were right across from Grant Park and had the evening free so we got to walk across the street, enjoy A Taste of Chicago and watch the fireworks from Grant Park.
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Old 07-04-2007, 12:58 AM
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Didn't Presidents Jefferson and Adams die on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence? It was on the History Channel or TLC? I think?

I do want to make this clear:

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

To all those who serve!!! Thank God for your service to US!!!
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