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Post by rdywenur on Jul 3, 2007 7:20:55 GMT -7
To my fellow forum members:
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Post by bescheid on Jul 3, 2007 11:48:42 GMT -7
Ohhhh, that is so nice of you to think of all! Actually, it becomes confusing. I forget of the US national day of Independence as of 4 July....sorry.. 1 July was Canada Day {Dominion Day} and my country is 3 Oct. {1990} Unification Day. As usual, I have a story: My initial exposure to the Canadian Holiday of {Canada Day} was whilst assigned at the government building in Regina Saskatchewan {Canada}, this was a 3 year assigned duty {we have a 3-5 year rotation cycle}. As you know, this is also the location of the RCMP {Royal Canadian Mounted Police} training Academy} this is one of the Prairie Provence's and also you know, the wind blows every day beginning at around 09.00 to afternoon, if a person will fart upwind, it will take about 4 km before striking ground and then bounce around between the fields of wheat before actually landing. I my self had arriven to open up our office at the 07.00 opening and found the whole darn building locked up kit and all. Now this is unusual. Security always will open the building and station for entry checks, and lo,no security....Well perhaps all of Canada has over slept, hell, what a day to start up with!!! Loaded up the coffee machine, brought up to line our communications, unlocked office files, unable to locate work files, and no Ami {Amajet Purba} office secretary {she is öst Indian}. And so, with my best most polite learnt English, I rang her up out of bed as for why she is not at work? Her reply? Well, she replied with some very interesting remarks. Mostly of: Karl, what hell you doing? This today is a Holiday, it is Canada Day, and hung up...Well, now what? Out the window, there came of the most loud, howling racket!! It was as of an Elephants suddenly sat on a spear head with it s butt and was trumpeting in extreme pain....{it was the bag Piper's of the RCMP cadets in their parade march practice.... The Scot fellows that wear skirts and strut.....yes, it was them.. Well, by this time, the day was shot to hell, so it is now a one person office with the secretary off, the office supervisor off, and my self, unable to locate daily files. It was just communications sign off, and get out and enjoy what was left of the day. The RCMP parade was wonderful, the bar/taverns were over full and those Canadians certainly know how to enjoy them selves, for they must of with what was drunk that day. Regina is not so large, and as so, those crazy RCMP-ers double parade through before giving up. That is how I learnt of {Canada Day} Charles
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Post by rdywenur on Jul 3, 2007 13:24:41 GMT -7
Charles....got you covered. US flag, German flag and EU flag. ;D
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Post by suzanne on Jul 3, 2007 13:34:15 GMT -7
Charles....got you covered. US flag, German flag and EU flag. ;D Happy 4th to you too and everyone else celebrating it! And we're covered not just with your US, German and EU flags, but I think I notice some Polish pottery in the background
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Post by bescheid on Jul 3, 2007 14:29:07 GMT -7
Charles....got you covered. US flag, German flag and EU flag. ;D Chris vielen Dank Grüß von Charles
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Post by rdywenur on Jul 3, 2007 18:02:09 GMT -7
Good catch Suzanne...so I do have all covered indeed ;D
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Post by scatts on Jul 11, 2007 0:53:23 GMT -7
Why the fourth?
Though the Fourth of July is iconic to Americans, some claim the date itself is somewhat arbitrary. New Englanders had been fighting Britain since April 1775. The first motion in the Continental Congress for independence was made on June 4, 1776. After hard debate, the Congress voted unanimously, but secretly, for independence from Great Britain on July 2 (the Lee Resolution) and appointed Thomas Jefferson to write a draft. The Congress reworked the draft until a little after eleven o’clock, July 4, when twelve colonies voted for adoption (New York abstained from both votes) and released a copy to the printers signed only by John Hancock, President of the Congress, and Secretary Charles Thomson. Philadelphia celebrated the Declaration with public readings and bonfires on July 8. Not until August 2 would a fair printing be signed by the members of the Congress, but even that was kept secret to protect the members from possible British reprisals.
John Adams, credited by Thomas Jefferson as the unofficial, tireless whip of the independence-minded, wrote to his wife Abigail on July 3, 1776:
The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch 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 shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.[citation needed]
Adams was off by two days, however. Certainly, the vote on July 2 was the decisive act. But July 4 is the date that Jefferson's stirring prose, as edited by the Congress, was officially adopted and was the first day Philadelphians heard any concrete news of independence from the Continental Congress, as opposed to rumors in the street about secret votes.
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