Tom's Blog

Well, its Independence Day again.  My how time flies as it was just a few weeks ago we were talking about the snow and waiting for the baseball season to begin. 

Of course, Independence Day is becoming less important as most people are just glad to get a day off of work to go to watch fireworks or whatever they do.  The main reason why we have this holiday is to celebrate our independence from England and all their taxes.  Prior to our crafting our Declaration of Independence from England, it was more like the people coming over here to farm and mine for minerals and have to pay high taxes to the British Empire.  The Boston Tea Party was the beginning of the revolt which eventually became the Revolutionary War.  After the war, then we wrote the Constitution which became the foundation of how the newly formed country would be formed.  We also added the Bill of Rights and other admendments to the Constitution. 

Now, there has been times where we have to go to war to protect our rights as Americans and we have honored those brave soldiers during the community celebrations across the country.  And we have also had huge groups of people who became American citizens on Independence Day in the past too.  And we have baseball games all over country as well. 

With the freedom we have, there is also the problem of certain groups that are slowly taking away our rights to conform to their world view.  One of the important elections is coming up in which more rights could be taken away if we don't choose wisely.