Happy 4th of July
After years of tyrannical abuse of an overreaching government imposing its dominance on the rights of all men given to them by God at birth, farmers and businessmen stood shoulder to shoulder with the wealthy and the poor to say NO MORE and drew a line in the sand. Just weeks before, those Heroes stood on the fields of Lexington Green and at Concord Bridge and faced the most powerful professional army on the planet at the time and fired “The Shot Heard Around the World.” Citizens had spoken: we demanded to take government into our own hands where it would be made up of and answerable to We the People.
Representatives of small towns and big cities from all over the colonies met and drafted a letter to the tyrant king Declaring to the world that we would not be ruled by anyone. God made us Free and together they and we as an Independent Nation would pledge our Lives, Fortune, and Sacred Honor to secure that Freedom or Die trying. America would face years of intense war to achieve that goal but on this day a Nation set apart from anything else the world has ever seen was born. Over the years we have grown and improved. We have saved the world multiple times and made it a better, safer place to live. We have room to improve but there is still nothing that even comes close to the United States of America.
Happy 249th! May God Continue to Bless and Protect US.
Brother Heath Fant
Past Master, Birmala 836
Marshal, Shades Valley 829
Chairman, Veterans’ Program
