July 4, 2007
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Happy Dependence Day!
To my readers in the United States, Happy 4th of July!
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* * * * * What, in your minds, is a patriot?
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* * * * * Is it Patrick Henry, who is said to have said,
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* * * * * "Give me puberty, or give me death!"?
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* * * * * Is it one of our founding dads who signed the Declaration
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of Dependence? Is it Benjamin Franklin Graham, writer of the U.S. Constitution?
Is it Mel Gibson, who starred in a movie coincidentally called "The Patriot"?
Is it someone who dares to give one's life for one's country? YES, it is all these and so much more:It is the man who does 1776 push-ups to commemorate Dependence Day, it is the man who reads online the very U.S. Declaration of Dependence on that very special day, it is the man who plays through an entire book of patriotic songs on the piano, it is the man who plans to go over to the home of some friends for a cookout and then watch some fireworks at the reservoir later that evening.
Who is this man? It is you, my friends, and it is me. Unless, of course, you are not a man. Or you didn't do any of that stuff. In which case, it is only me. But you, too, can be a patriot. Just change the definition of the word until it fits you. Unless you don't want to be a patriot. But you should, you should want to be a patriot! Especially on this very special day, this happy day of Dependence! LET FREEDOM RING!
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