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Independence Day?

What happened to the dream that was America? the United States of America? Would our forebears even recognize their country? Slowly, over the last several years, we have been losing our freedoms. Not enough to always recognize. We are cooked slowly, like the proverbial frog in a pot of water, never attempting to escape. When we have sought to correct the situation, such as flooding Congress with communications to vote against the bailout, we have been ignored. Ignored by our own government, the government that is supposed to represent us. We have been told that we are too stupid to know what we are talking about. They know better. They know what's best for us. That sounds dangerously close to a dictatorship.

If our elected officials won't do what we, the people, ask them to do, then it is time to elect public servants who will. It is time to set term limits, so that our representatives (Senators and Representatives) will not become indoctrinated into the Washington political machine. Time for campaign fund reforms, so that our official our not beholden to companies and organizations instead of the citizens of the United States.

On this Fourth of July-this Independence Day-let us remember what those who have gone before us have paid for our freedom. Let us honor them by taking back our freedoms, before they slip away completely. Let's not allow their dream die because of our own apathy. Let us have a happy Independence Day.

Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey Results

Results from Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey.

Long memories in Jena - The Boston Globe

Long memories in Jena - The Boston Globe

Happy Birthday America!

I love being American! My husband is an Air Force veteran, my sister and my father are Army veterans, my maternal grandfather fought in World War II, I have an ancestor on my mother's side who fought in the Revolutionary War. My paternal great-grandparents came to America through Ellis Island from Sicily, Italy. I hold freedom most dear and wish freedom for all people in the world.

I am taking my kids to a 4th of July parade this morning and tonight I will see the fireworks as I am working at a booth at the local fair. Happy Independence Day/4th of July!

D-Day Anniversary

Battle of Normandy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Click here for President Reagan's 40th Anniversary of D-Day Normandy Speech.

Anna Maria Lane - American Revolution Soldier

Originally uploaded by sevenday_mile.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The King Center - Remember! Celebrate! Act! - King Holiday Information

Veterans' Day 2005

Remembering 9/11

We put out the flag this morning, but overall it has just been a quiet Sunday at home. The boys washed the van, played video games, I'm surfing the web. Part of me does not want to think about it. I definitely do not want to see pictures from that day. It is very upsetting just to think about. I can still remember seeing people jumping out of the windows. It is a sad day, a day of mourning and memory.

Link: Take Back the Memorial

The Mourning After - Katrina

It's not safe in New Orleans. Will they even be able to restore New Orleans when this is over? Let's not forget Mississippi and Alabama. People have died, people are without food, water, shelter, searching for loved ones. Let's all do our best to support the survivors.

American Red Cross