HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

Yorktown -- "The Day the World Turned Upside Down" through God's Providence.

IF THERE WAS HOPE AT YORKTOWN,

THERE IS HOPE TODAY!

Thanks be to God for the Declaration of Independence - the statement of our freedom, for the vctory at Yorktown, and for 233 years of relative freedom since!

Though there was not much support throughout the colonies during the war, with less than half the population in sympathy with the Patriots, and out of those, only a small percentage actually fighting, with God's help and through His mercy He brought us through the years of struggle and provided us with the victory.

May those of us with the same principles and love of freedom today be ready and willing to sacrifce with the Lords' help to preserve what the Lord gave us 233 years ago! May He once again give us a "Day the World Turned Upside Down!"

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WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.

Happy Independence Day!!!!