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  • Super User

Happy 4th to our great administrative team, and all the brothers. Tight lines! πŸŽ‰πŸ˜†πŸŽ‰

  • Super User

Don't forget the sisters.

I'm looking (figuratively) at you Katie ( @Swamp Girl )

  • Super User

Hey man slow down, we ain't been through the 3rd yet! I'm old and don't want to give up any of them...

I love seeing Old Glory fly all around my neighborhood. Happy Birthday USA !

  • Global Moderator

Interesting you should post this on the 2nd. Here is what John Adams had to say about our Independence Day.

The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not."

- John Adams July 3, 1776

Either way, happy birthday to the greatest country.

  • Super User

Happy 4th everyone, glad to be here, in the United States of America.

  • Super User

Happy 4 th Lip rippers πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

  • Super User

There it is ~

What a Long Strange Trip It's Been.

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A-Jay

Happy 4th!

And we have a great new story to go along with this 250th celebration:

www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/07/04/previously-unidentified-original-declaration-of-independence-discovered-in-uk-royal-navy-archives/

Previously Unidentified Original Declaration of Independence Discovered in UK Royal Navy Archives

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This image made from video shows a newly discovered copy of the U.S. Declaration of Indepe AP IMAGES

Celebrating American Greatness

Oliver JJ Lane
4 Jul 2026

A rare Declaration of Independence captured from an American Privateer by a Royal Navy warship on Christmas Eve 1776 has been discovered in a British archive, and is now one of only 11 of its type known to survive.

A volunteer at Britain’s National Archives in Kew Gardens, London, discovered a previously unknown copy of the Declaration of Independence while cataloguing long-sealed bundles of documents. The Brit was working on an America-250 project to sort and catalogue large volumes of documents relating to British naval captains and admirals who served around 1776."

Click on link above to read the story on how this copy was captured and where. Who would have thought?

What's amazing to me is to learn of the mission of the ship this copy was on when captured. Seems to me if you are going to go somewhere get militarily aggressive in another part of the world, you should bring a big enough ship and enough guns to back up your aggression. This was not the case here. Pretty gutsy. Lucky this one did not wind up on the bottom of the ocean at the time.

  • Super User

HAPPY 4th to everyone. Have a Safe day, and Tight lines to y'all.

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