it's not all about camping out, fireworks - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

dayexco · 07-03-2006, 08:52 AM

if you have a few extra mins. today, or tomorrow....take 3 mins and go to this link. a wonderful tribute to the people who allow us the lifestyle we have today.

http://managedmusic.com/launch.html

**denick** · 07-03-2006, 07:41 PM

Thank You, Day.

tgeb · 07-03-2006, 08:10 PM

Yep! Thanks Day.

Everyone have a safe and enjoyable 4th.

God Bless the troops.

Patty · 07-03-2006, 11:49 PM

Thanks for sharing that with us, Day!

That was a touching piece.

Hope your 4th is Wonderful!

jmic · 07-04-2006, 05:11 AM

Couldn't agree with the folks above more, great pc. Day. Really puts the perspective back in what this day is all about. I salute all the men and woman who have sacrificed all for our way of life.

**denick** · 07-04-2006, 07:48 AM

I wonder on this day if I would have what it took to make the decisions and stand up for what I believe as the people that founded this country did. They certainly suffered for their actions in some way. Things were not easy for them their families and the people they represented. The dedication, perseverance and suffering that all the people, men, women and children of that time allow me to sit here today living what I believe is a very easy life.

With such abundance I feel THANK YOU! is becoming and inadequate way to express my gratitude.

PipeGuy · 07-04-2006, 08:09 AM

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they?

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and
his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward. Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr. noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later, he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates. Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more.
-Author Unknown

Quotes from the Founding Fathers "... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed... The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)
"(T)he foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; ...the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained..." George Washington, First Inaugural, April 30 1789
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
"Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right"
"Can the liberties of a nation be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that these liberties are a gift from God? Thomas Jefferson
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." George Washington
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.
JAMES MADISON
"Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust their people with arms."
SAMUEL ADAMS
"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms . . ."
GEORGE WASHINGTON
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference they deserve a place of honor with all that is good."

"Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death." James Madison

"A generous parent would have said, 'if there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Thomas Paine, Common Sense

tgeb · 07-05-2006, 07:18 AM

Quote:

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Very interesting though note quite Historically accurate.

Check out this link for the rest of the story.

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/pricepaid.asp