Wat does the 4th of July mean to you??

Answer 1

its a day where we can thank god that he gave us a country that we are free to do as we want[within reason] It means that a lot of men and woman put some hard work into making this country free and livable and that this day is in honor of them.

Answer 2

The 4th of July means that I will be on the boat all weekend drinking beer and getting some sun. It also means that I will be holding someones hair while they puke at some point during the weekend. But we do pay our respects to the people that have given their lives so that others can be free. ( My family are all Marines) My brothers will be home from N.C. and Cuba. So it will for sure be a party.

Answer 3

Freedom, it's my birthday, it's a time to think about all we can do that other countries cannot. And Frederick Douglass wrote that a long time ago when it was very different for Black people. I'd still rather stand under the red, white, and blue flag rather than any other flag.

Answer 4

The 4th of July mean's nothing to me
it's just like mon-fri.

Answer 5

It means the world to me. I grew up in a time when kids said the Pledge of Alligence EVERY day in school. With my hand over my young heart I meant every word that I said. Today I still put my hand over an older heart, sometimes with tears in my eyes, whenever ANYTHING moves me to that place in my soul where I know how fortunate and blessed I am to call myself an American.

Answer 6

To quote Frederick Douglass:

"I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me by asking me to speak today? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn that it is dangerous to copy the example of nation whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrevocable ruin! I can today take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people."

"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States at this very hour."

Answer 7

It means that my friends and I get to spend 4 glorious days this weekend swimming in the Lake half naked with a group of beautiful men...

Answer 8

Hot Dogs. Time with family. End of T-Ball season

Answer 9

Time with my family, enjoying life's simple pleasures and partaking of good food, the fruits of our labor. It means time near the ocean or other body of water. It means feeling proud of who I am and where I live.

Answer 10

We get a canival here for the 4th--so it means upside down rides for me!!