Independence Day

A Fourth of July story.
A little known (I think) fact about July Fourth is that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same day, July 4th, fifty years after the Declaration of Independence. They had made up their differences and had corresponded regularly in their last years.
Only Washington and Franklin were their equals among the the distinguished band of Founding Fathers Providence blessed our republic with.

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Alfred22

Of many of the founders, they wrote better than they actually thought. Giving their words a broader and more contemporary interpretations they were inspiring. Paraphrasing those same inspirational statements into what they actually meant by them, the result is significantly different and almost dreary.