July 4th Gratitude

  1. The Continental Congress resolved to break its ties with Great Britain on July 2, 1776.
  2. Two days later the Declaration of Independence is approved.
  3. Our freedom and our independence did not come without a cost, then or now
  4. Our greatest treasure is freedom
  5. The corollary of freedom is individual responsibility.
  6. Our women and men in uniform who serve for our freedom, especially those who are forward deployed
  7. Their spouses, children, parents, siblings, extended family and friends who count the days
  8. Naturalized citizens like my friend Vincent Agor, featured in the OC Register. Mr. Agor said, “When I became a citizen, in that moment, it’s a free choice to see that the name American is mine,” http://t.co/lsVr5fd
  9. Veterans who are home and at home in heaven
  10. 
    “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

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