"We hold these truths to be self-evident...that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
-Thomas Jefferson
Fathers of our Country signing the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the document in which American colonists proclaimed their freedom from British rule. The Second Continental Congress, with representatives of the 13 British colonies in America, adopted the declaration on July 4, 1776. The document included an expression of the colonists’ grievances and their reasons for declaring freedom from Britain. The Declaration of Independence’s eloquent rhetoric and political significance rank it as one of the great historical documents.
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My tribute to the Revolutionists
They were a rag tag band of soldiers. Ordinary citizens with extraordinary dreams. Farmers, merchants, craftsmen. They left behind their wives, families, homes and farms to answer liberty's call. The patriots we know include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Patrick Henry. The ones we'll never know were just as important. They fought in swamps, pastures and hills. They froze, they starved, they ached for hearth and home. They bled and died for democracy. This debt we can never repay. Down the hallowed corridors of Independence Hall, across the golden plains and green river valleys, over the oceans blue.......
Let Freedom Ring!
-by Beth
Look what I won! Thanks so much OCN.
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