What will you do to show your patriotism this Independence Day?

Question

And, in answering please state whether you are liberal, conservative or middle of the road.

Answer 1

I'm having a party at my house to celebrate our indepence. I will be flying red, white, and blue, and eating applie pie and playing baseball.

Oh, and I am middle of the road.

Answer 2

Display The flag, cook out with the family, and lay around like an old cat the rest of the evening.
I'm a conservative. Walking in the middle of the road can get you ran over. So, I'll just walk on the right side. Hope you enjoy the 4th. Here's Old Glory waving at you.

Answer 3

Written by a neocon no-much less! Conservatives have fun Independence day, then want to do away with all of our rights under the form, which comprise unfastened speech! And on Memorial day what do conservatives do, take an prolonged weekend, get drunk and fry some burgers. maximum have in no way seen a vet who fought in a warfare, and in simple terms approximately none of them have attended a Memorial Day parade, visited the VA scientific institution, visited an previous infantrymen abode!! I celebrated a minimum of a million Independence day in wrestle! How approximately you?

Answer 4

We'll be bar-b-queing at my dad's, and perhaps we'll put his flag out. But in general, my family isn't into overt public displays of patriotism.

We don't feel we have to. My father was a Marine. My bro just retired from the Army. I served in the Air Force. My uncles also served. We consider it the old-fashioned showing of patriotism - service.
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Oh, yeah. Conservative.

Answer 5

I'm moderately liberal... although that has no impact on my plans. I plan on showing my patriotism by driving all the way across Michigan to pick up my mentally ill big sister so that she can attend my little sister's wedding on Saturday on the other side of the state. Then I may go see the fireworks in Lansing, if we get back in time. Wahoo!

Answer 6

I will fly the flag, and have a barbecue with my family...later I will help the boys shoot off illegal fireworks. I have never voted in my life! yet, I love my country, and if I had to choose, I think Bush should have nuked Iraq the day after 9/11 happened, then our troops would not be over there, policing the country...in a place we are not wanted, re-building a country that doesn't appreciate us, while our children here in America go hungry and uneducated, without free medical care!!!!

Answer 7

I'll have a picnic with my daughter and we intend to see the movie "Sicko" by Michael Moore and then we will watch the fireworks from downtown Charlotte, NC! I consider myself a middle-of-the-roader but my daughter has the idea of "why vote, it's just corrupt anyway" attitude that I am trying to change!

Answer 8

We'll hang a humonous American flag. And we'll be having
picnic fare with hot dogs and potato, and cole slaw salads.
Some chips and melon later.
We're independants and think more along the lines of Lib-
ertarians.

Answer 9

I am not American but would like to wish you a happy and safe July 4th. I am Canadian but always enjoy watching a Capital Fourth programme on PBS. You guys have a neat way of celebrating your national holiday. Again Happy Fourth of July.

Answer 10

I'm going to be greatful 56 men rose up so I could live my life free.

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. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told us a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary War. Our forefathers didn't just fight the British. They were British subjects at that time, and they fought their own government! Some of us take these liberties so much for granted...and we shouldn't.
So, let's take a few moments while enjoying our 4th of July holiday and silently appreciate these patriots and thank the God who moved them. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.

Submitted by Neednuttin in 1998.