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A Look at From Where We Have Come
Sometimes it's good to look back on the real costs of freedom and what a few
have sacrificed .....for the many.

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the
Declaration of
Independence?… Five were captured by the British as traitors, and were
tortured before they died.… Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.…
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army;…Another had two sons
captured…. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the
Revolutionary War.

They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred
honor….  Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists…. Eleven were merchants…  Nine
were farmers and large plantation owners… They were men of means, and well
educated, but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well
that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships
swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to
pay his debts, and died in rags.

Thomas McKean was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his
family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his
family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty
was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton,
Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General
Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly
urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and
Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his
wife, and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13
children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to
waste.. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home
to find his wife dead and his children vanished.

Although he was too young at the time to have been one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, Andrew Jackson was a messenger for the
Continental Army at a very   young age. He and his brother were captured by
the British and while he was a prisoner of war, a British officer ordered
him to shine his boots. The young Jackson refused, and the officer slashed
him with his sword leaving a scared hand and face for life. He and his
brother contracted smallpox while imprisoned and after their release, his
brother died of the smallpox.

Shortly after his brother died, his mother died of cholera contracted while
tending to the Revolutionary militia in Charleston. This left young Andrew
Jackson alone in the world, for his father had died soon after bringing his
wife over from Ireland  to settle and begin his new family near Lancaster
South Carolina.

Jackson went on to distinguish himself in the war of 1812 at New Orleans and
later as President, stopping the evil bankers in cahoots with the Bank of
England from oppressing America for a full 76 years until 1913 when the
International Bankers screwed America with the Federal Reserve Act.

My fellow Americans, I ask you, what sacrifice will you make to regain and
preserve our liberty in America?
http://www.wtfmatrix.com/news.php?item.45.11   "Ask not what your country can
do for you.  Ask what you can do for your country."  John F. Kennedy

We Celebrate a Great Nation
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died July 4, 1826 on the 50th
anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Although
Jefferson and Adams became enemies during the nasty presidential election of
1800 (Jefferson defeated Adams' re-election bid), they rekindled their
affection for each other later in life. On his deathbed, Adams final words
were, "Thomas Jefferson survives." He didn't know that Jefferson had passed
away just a few hours earlier, but Adams was correct. Thomas Jefferson did
indeed survive.

Jefferson was one of the youngest members of the Second Continental Congress
and also one of its quietest. John Adams asked him about writing a
declaration of independence from Britain and stated, "You can write ten
times better than I can." And Jefferson did. Between June 11 and June 28,
1776, he labored to produce one of the world's greatest documents. According
to The History Channel magazine, "Aside from members of Congress, colonists
remained uninformed of the Declaration's authorship for years � the
first newspaper reporting it came out in 1784, nearly a decade later."

Fifty-six men, all labeled "traitors" by King George III, singed the
Declaration in Philadelphia. The Charlotte Observer wrote, "They endorsed a
vision of government that would become the American creed and inspire future
generations of freedom lovers around the world. The revolutionary
pamphleteer Thomas Paine saw the new nation's opportunity clearly. In his
1776 best-seller 'Common Sense,' he wrote, 'We have it in our power to begin
the world anew.'"

Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't.

So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently
thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.

Remember: freedom is never free! I hope you will show your support by
sending this to as many people as you can, please. It's time we get the word
out that Patriotism is NOT a sin, and the Fourth of July has more to it than
beer, picnics, and baseball games.

Abraham Lincoln said that the signers "meant to set up a standard maxim for
a free society; which should be familiar to all, and revered by all;
constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never
perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly
spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and
value of life to all people of all colors everywhere."

In an editorial entitled "Birth of An Idea" two years ago, The Charlotte
Observer concluded, "Mr. Lincoln was right. The Declaration of Independence
served its immediate purpose but served a larger purpose too. It created a
vision of a nation that America may never fully achieve, but must never fail
to aspire to. That challenge is worth celebrating."


Looking Forward With A Great Vision to Where We Aspire To Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p774eENRP_4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwIRrrUKZnI&NR=1

Imagine a time in our future, bathed in Liberty....looking back on this time
as the beginning of the renewal of our Republic.

Happy July 4th America!!

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