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Breathing in the morning air, cool air fills my lungs. Later this afternoon they will be filled with thick, dry hot air but for now the morning is still fresh and crisp. Somehow it’s been a mild summer with only one week of temperatures over one hundred degrees, and today there is a breeze blowing through even in July. I look out my scale house window at the American Flag dancing in the breeze like every picture and video you see of it flying. I think how incredibly proud I am of that flag and the things our country went through to keep it up there. I then think about that group of men who got together in one room on that one day and took turns putting their John Hancock’s down on a little sheet of paper called The Declaration of Independence.
While we all still appreciate that day, the Fourth of July has become a day to barbeque, eating hot dogs, burgers and ice cream.. It’s a fun day to spend with friends and family. A great day filled with memories, sporting your red, white and blue, while running and dancing around with sparklers in hand. It’s a day to cool off in the pool and look up at the sky in awe as fireworks in all colors explode, fall down then slowly fade into the warm, dark summer sky.
While all of that is wonderful and boy, do we love our Fourth of July celebrations, let’s not forget that thanks to a few good men getting together in a room and signing their names, every day is independence day. God Bless America.