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corporatefineart.com Photo Gallery: 1:42am 1 review nature
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EyeFetch Photography - Let it Shine by cricket: Jul 3, 8:56pm 0 review photography
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Lady Liberty Fireworks: Jul 3, 8:54pm 29 reviews humor
http://www.julyparade.org/fireworks.html

Jul 3, 8:34pm: Our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to break from the British and bring the world an ENSIGN FOR FREEDOM. Back then it wasn't so easy. There was a great possibility that those men and women espousing freedom would be captured, put in jail or hanged by the neck. Many meetings had taken place among the colonists and as different views were being proposed on what to do with England, some wanted reconcillation, some preached timidity and after a few hours, John Adams tired of the back and forth bickering finally stood up and pointing to George Washington, the presiding officer said: "Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to the vote. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to see the time this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists; die slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold. Be it so: be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, or at least the hope of a country, and that a FREE country.

But whatever may be our fate, be assured--be assured that this Declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present I see the brightness of the future as the sun in heaven. We shall make this a glorious, an immortal day. When we are in our graves, our children will honor it. They will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations. On its annual return they will shed tears, --copious, gushing tears; not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy.

Sir, before God I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves the measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that, live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and, by the blessing of God, it shall by my dying sentiment; independence now and INDEPENDENCE FOREVER.

Check Out This Iraqi Kid - He Likes Our Troops So Much He Get As Close As Possib…: Jul 3, 6:39am 7 reviews iraq
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YouTube - KEITH URBAN BETTER LIFE: Jul 3, 6:35am 1 review music, video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=c2d0i8wkpt; MY BABY!!

YouTube - Keith Urban - Tonight I Wanna Cry: Jul 3, 6:33am 8 reviews country-music, video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=3lsvlhwd34; *sigh*

4th of july icons or fireworks image by louisbernhardt on Photobucket: Jul 3, 6:32am 0 review photography, independence-day
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Star Spangled Banner: Jul 3, 6:28am 4 reviews music
http://www.buckskin.org/Resources/Fun/Songs/star_spangled_banner.htm; From the page: "Star Spangled Banner

Star Spangled Banner - MP3

Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
W hat so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mist of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep.
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream
'Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation,
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n - rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, for our cause is just,
And this be our motto--"In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."