Independence Day Weekend

July 6, 2018

Another July 4th has come and gone. Many seem to not even know what, specifically, we are celebrating.

One of my most favorite films for this holiday time is Johnny Tremain. I recall watching it periodically. Then, it would only appear once a year, on July 4th. Now, it doesn't seem to air on tv at all. One would suspect the "powers that be" don't want people to be inspired, perhaps?

As a service-connected veteran, with family members having served in the army, marines, air force, and navy (myself), along with one serving in the merchant marines from WWII (none in the USCG, to my knowledge), I think July 4th to be an important symbol. One does have to wonder, though, that if the colonists hadn't won, would it have been problematic, to say the least? Perhaps we should celebrate when the US actually won it's independence? The last major battle, in Yorktown, was in 1781, but the official ending wasn't until The Treaty of Paris, September 3, 1783, that ended the American Revolutionary War. So, maybe we should actually celebrate the true independence then?