JULY 4 1776 (VOTED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE )

THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS JULY 4, 1776, ASSEMBLED IN INDEPENDENCE HALL IN PHILADELPHIA, SOLEMNLY VOTED THAT THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BE ADOPTED. FROM THAT MOMENT IN (HISTORY OUR NATION) HAS COME THROUGH EARLY SUFFERINGS AND HARDSHIPS, THROUGH WARS AND ECONOMIC UPHEAVALS TO IT'S PRESENT GREATNESS AND WORLD LEADERSHIP.  WE AS A NATION CELEBRATE WITH THE FLAG (RED< WHITE< BLUE AND STARS AND STRIPES WAVE PROUDLY, (WE HAVE PARADES, MUSIC (BANDS PLAY YANKEE DOODLE DANDY!) ALL MEMBERS OF EVERY SERVICE BRANCH MARCH< WAVING PATRIOTIC FLAGS!!( THE PATRIOT'S CALL---AMERICANS! for FREEDOM FIRMLY JOIN, UNITE YOUR COUNCILS AND YOUR FORCE COMBINE< DISARM OPPRESSION--prune AMBITION'S WINGS, AND STIFLE Tories, e'et they dart the STINGS; AND THEN YOUR PLUNDER'D RIGHTS SHALL BE RESTO'D AND TYRANTS TREMBLE WHEN YOU GRASP THE SWORD>__***1775 by BENJAMIN WEST