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OneLegUpAlex Media Celebrates july 2, 1776 250 years later on 7-2-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: That is from Carnegie Hall this past Tuesday night. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: to Joean Pelzer for the invite. Michael Finneley, the conductor,
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  Speaker 2: pianist and Arcadia Symphony conductor and chorus conductor put on
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  Speaker 2: an amazing night On Tuesday night, America celebrates two fifty
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  Speaker 2: at Carnegie Hall with Yes Secretary Hillary rodm Clinton featured
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  Speaker 2: reading along with the score by Aaron Copeland at Queen's
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  Speaker 2: College legend his Lincoln Portrait to honor America to fifty.
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  Speaker 2: But today's a day where John Adams thought that we
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  Speaker 2: should be shooting fireworks off and shooting off the cannons
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  Speaker 2: because he thought the moment we voted for independence yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty years ago, the founding fathers voted
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  Speaker 2: for independence, July second cannot go unnoticed, and it will
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  Speaker 2: not go unnoticed here at won lookup alex media. But
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  Speaker 2: I also think there was a reason why July second
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  Speaker 2: did not have the fireworks and the cannons, because it
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  Speaker 2: took two more days to actually adopt the resolution known
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  Speaker 2: as the Independence Declaration of Independence. But we also had
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you're aware of this, but at
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  Speaker 2: the time of their debating they actually had the pause
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  Speaker 2: debating earlier in the week because we were under attack
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  Speaker 2: right here in Manhattan by British fleet of forty five ships,
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  Speaker 2: naval ships attacking both sides the East River and the
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  Speaker 2: Hudson River into Manhattan. We weren't bombarded, causing the Intercontinental
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  Speaker 2: Congress to actually pause debating. So I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: after that bombardment they were able to re convene so
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  Speaker 2: quick and actually vote on this on July second.
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  Speaker 1: But they did. But I want to.
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  Speaker 2: Take you to what Echoes of War had said, which
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  Speaker 2: I retweeted earlier today, because you need to see this.
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  Speaker 2: Echoes of War posted this, and you gotta follow their account.
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  Speaker 2: They're pretty good, a pretty good account. On this day
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  Speaker 2: in seventeen seventy six, the United States was actually born,
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  Speaker 2: not July fourth, July second. That's the day the Continental
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  Speaker 2: Congress voted to break free from Britain, and John Adams
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  Speaker 2: was so so of it that he predicted July second
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  Speaker 2: would be the great American holiday forever. He nailed everything
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  Speaker 2: except the date. The vote came down to the wire
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  Speaker 2: and one man had a ride through the night to
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  Speaker 2: save it. Delaware's delegation was split one for independence, one against,
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  Speaker 2: which meant the colonies vote canceled itself out. The tie breaker,
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  Speaker 2: Caesar Rodney, who was eighty miles away in Delaware, got
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  Speaker 2: word that he was needed and rode all night through
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  Speaker 2: a summer thunderstorm, sicken in pain, boots and spurs, Delaan
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  Speaker 2: and made it into Philadelphia just in time to cast
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  Speaker 2: Delaware's vote for independence.
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  Speaker 1: And remember it was horseback then.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't a train, the Amtrak, it wasn't a buss,
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  Speaker 2: a greyhound or whatever. The other held outs fell into place,
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  Speaker 2: and in Pennsylvania, most of the men most opposed, including
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  Speaker 2: John Dickinson, deliberately stayed away from the chamber so their
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  Speaker 2: colony could swing to yes. South Carolina came around for
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  Speaker 2: the sake of a united front. When the role was called,
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  Speaker 2: twelve colonies voted for independence and not a single vote against.
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  Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, New York simply abstained. We did not vote
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  Speaker 2: either way. We just waited for permission from home. But
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  Speaker 2: on July second, seventeen seventy six, it was done. The
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  Speaker 2: colonies had legally officially declared themselves free. The next day,
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  Speaker 2: Adams wrote to his wife Abigail, that this day will
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  Speaker 2: be celebrated by succeeding generations as the Great Anniversary Festival,
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  Speaker 2: pomp and parade, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, illuminations,
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  Speaker 2: fireworks and all. He was describing the fourth of July
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  Speaker 2: two days early. So why do we celebrate the fourth,
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  Speaker 2: Because that's the day Congress approved of The final wording
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  Speaker 2: of the document explained the decision, the declaration of independence,
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  Speaker 2: the vote to be free, happened on the second. The
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  Speaker 2: paperwork got finished on the fourth, and history remembered the paperwork.
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  Speaker 2: The country was actually born in a rainstorm and on
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  Speaker 2: a road call on July second, thanks in part to
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  Speaker 2: one sick man who refused to let a tie decide
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  Speaker 2: the fate of a nation.
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  Speaker 1: That is beautifully written by echoes of war.
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  Speaker 2: And I wanted to read it in its entirety for you,
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  Speaker 2: because today isn't about the fireworks, to be very honest
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  Speaker 2: with you, Today's about the sacredness of what happened two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty years ago. Today is a sacred day
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  Speaker 2: amidst all this conflict, amidst all this war, and amidst
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  Speaker 2: one of the boldest decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Ever made.
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  Speaker 2: The July second is a sacred day. It's a joyful
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  Speaker 2: one because they voted yes to independence. But it's not
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  Speaker 2: one for fireworks and cannon fire. It's one to where
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  Speaker 2: we just decompressed for a minute and realize what we
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  Speaker 2: had just done. We had broken free from tyranny legally
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  Speaker 2: on July second.
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen seventy six.
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  Speaker 2: That is incredible. That is a sacred moment. It's not
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  Speaker 2: a Pommon circumstance moment. It's a moment of reflection of
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  Speaker 2: what had been done starting in seventeen seventy really four
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  Speaker 2: with the throwing of the you know, in seventeen seventy four,
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  Speaker 2: I believe they threw the Boston tea in the river.
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  Speaker 2: The Boston Tea Party happens seventeen seventy five, Paul Revere
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  Speaker 2: on his midnight ride. Then all of a sudden, the
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  Speaker 2: American Revolution breaks out, a battle of Lexington and Concord,
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  Speaker 2: and the rest is literal history. And the rest is
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  Speaker 2: literal history. So what of July second, seventeen seventy six
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  Speaker 2: ultimately culminates is rewarding the men who died and the
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  Speaker 2: women in the force as well, the men women who
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  Speaker 2: died for our freedoms to begin with. This is why
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  Speaker 2: I say the veterans of the American Revolution are the
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  Speaker 2: original veterans. They are the first veterans that sacrifice their life,
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  Speaker 2: that fought for us to be free. And two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty years later, we have a military that continues
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  Speaker 2: to deploy hardworking soldiers that want to keep us free.
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  Speaker 2: But they were the original veterans of this country.
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  Speaker 1: So today is not a day for fireworks.
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  Speaker 2: It's a day for reflection and honoring what those blood,
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  Speaker 2: sweat and tears led to, culminating with July. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you could say July fourth, seventeen seventy six, but in
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  Speaker 2: July second, seventeen seventy six, because July second was the
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  Speaker 2: hardest decision to make, but the twelve colonies made it.
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  Speaker 2: New York did not make it. I did not know
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  Speaker 2: that until right now. They abstained. But that had to
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  Speaker 2: be the debating, the bloodsweat and tears, even in the
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  Speaker 2: Internetal Congress at the Independence Hall, to get the vote done,
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  Speaker 2: the screaming of John Adams, who was so sure of independence,
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  Speaker 2: he kept saying as seventeen seventy six, the Miracle. The
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  Speaker 2: musical says vote yes, vote yes.
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  Speaker 1: You know that line.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course you cannot forget how this is
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  Speaker 2: a tribute to the hard work of George Washington, who
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  Speaker 2: led his men through the Delaware on that winter night
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  Speaker 2: against all odds and beat the British and all the
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  Speaker 2: other battles that went around leading into seventeen July second,
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  Speaker 2: seventeen seventy six.
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  Speaker 1: This day is an affirmation that and a confirmation that
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  Speaker 1: those men.
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  Speaker 2: That fought for the right to be free, fought with
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  Speaker 2: the grit and the grittiness, and they just fought to
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  Speaker 2: be free. They were validated today. Today's a day we
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  Speaker 2: honor the blood, sweat and tears because those colonies recognize
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  Speaker 2: that as yes, if these men and women who fight
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  Speaker 2: to keep us free want to be free, we must
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  Speaker 2: vote for that. They shed their lives for this.
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  Speaker 1: And they did, and they did.
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  Speaker 2: But two hundred fifty years later, two hundred ftwy years later,
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  Speaker 2: most people will just celebrate on July fourth, and.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be the big day, the big deal, the big brain,
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  Speaker 1: the big bang.
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  Speaker 2: Eight hundred thousand shells to be fired off in DC,
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  Speaker 2: which is pretty crazy to me. And that's why today
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  Speaker 2: is a sacred day that should not go unnoticed. It's
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  Speaker 2: the day from seventy four, the Boston Tea Party, through
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  Speaker 2: Paul Revere's midnight ride, through all those battles through Washington,
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  Speaker 2: crossing the Delaware with his troops.
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  Speaker 1: Those moments.
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  Speaker 2: Led us to today and get a validation today that
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  Speaker 2: we were fighting for the right cause because the colonies
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  Speaker 2: then believed in that cause and.
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  Speaker 1: What was that cause? To be free? And I say it.
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  Speaker 2: Because I see it within both parties that everybody's debating
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  Speaker 2: and it's someone getting shut down or some are getting canceled.
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  Speaker 2: You know why cancel culture is terrible because imagine Kncel
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  Speaker 2: culture existed in seventy six, seventy to seventy six. Imagine
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  Speaker 2: debate was shut down in Independence Hall. We wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: been here today. The ideas that were debated about feverishly
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  Speaker 2: and passionately for this country are what make it who
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  Speaker 2: we are today. And those I want to protest America
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  Speaker 2: two fifty and all this other stuff, as my friend
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  Speaker 2: Chemicalola says, go pound say it because you're not respecting
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  Speaker 2: the hard work and effort that went in to what
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  Speaker 2: July second, July fourth.
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  Speaker 1: And what everything leading into that meant. Literal soldiers, literal
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  Speaker 1: battles went on. So you're.
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  Speaker 2: Put sea foot nasts out there in the protesting world
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  Speaker 2: can stop an American flag, and maybe one day you'll
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  Speaker 2: realize that and stop stomping on the American flag, because
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  Speaker 2: what these protesters are doing doesn't make sense. They are
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  Speaker 2: trying to spit at the very country and the very
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  Speaker 2: ideas that allow them to do the spitting to begin with.
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  Speaker 2: So why not be damn grateful that you're in this
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  Speaker 2: country two hundred and fifty years later? Why not be grateful?
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  Speaker 2: And to those that are grateful, all of us cherish
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  Speaker 2: this day and not forget that our funding fathers made
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  Speaker 2: it possible on July second. July fourth doesn't happen without
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  Speaker 2: July second. The votes had to happen first, then the
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  Speaker 2: adoption later. And I'm putting this in the adapting because
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  Speaker 2: this is the first big adaptation. July second, seventeen seventy
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  Speaker 2: six is the first adaptation into a new world, into
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  Speaker 2: a new country, into a new nation. We adapt it
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  Speaker 2: into our cell to our own ideals, our own laws,
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  Speaker 2: our own values, and then it went from adaptation to
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  Speaker 2: adoption two days later. And that's why today is a reflective,
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  Speaker 2: sacred day and must be honored as sell. I'm sorry
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  Speaker 2: John Adams the fireworks. We're not shut off on Juduly second,
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  Speaker 2: seventeen seventy six. But I think it's only right that
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  Speaker 2: today we decompress and realize Wow. From December seventeen seventy
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  Speaker 2: four all the way through July second, seventy seventy six,
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  Speaker 2: the votes were the culmination, and you could say the
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  Speaker 2: adoption was a culmination, but the votes and the affirmation
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  Speaker 2: were the culmination of what was a hard fought year
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  Speaker 2: and a half of battle and bloodshed. And we must
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  Speaker 2: not forget that, and we must reflect on how our
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  Speaker 2: nation came to be. It's not by sitting around scrolling
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  Speaker 2: our iPhones. It was by digging in the trenches against
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  Speaker 2: the Red coats and battling at every turn, battling for
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  Speaker 2: that freedom we all continue to crave and respect at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, but continue to crave.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty years later. Nimby Not in my Backyard.
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  Speaker 2: Is a symbolism of that freedom from tyranny, from big government,
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  Speaker 2: and there are still ways to remain free. And I
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  Speaker 2: also think it's interesting that the ADA was passed in
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  Speaker 2: the same month as our country was formed and legalized,
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  Speaker 2: because the Americans Disabilities Act fights for the independence of
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  Speaker 2: disabled Americans, fights for the disabled Americans' right to exist.
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  Speaker 2: So what a parallel two hundred fifty years and in
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  Speaker 2: thirty six years, all for one cause, independence and freedom
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  Speaker 2: and self governance. And may our government never get too
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  Speaker 2: tall for its bridges to tell us what to do,
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  Speaker 2: because that's not who we were to begin with two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty years ago. We are supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: self governing. We are supposed to be a nation of
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  Speaker 2: laws and values and ideals. And my hope is that
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  Speaker 2: we can get to year fit three hundred. Okay, that's
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  Speaker 2: my hope, that's my next hope. But I also hope
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  Speaker 2: that in the next decades after year two fifty, we
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  Speaker 2: remain a free country, not a socialist country, but a
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  Speaker 2: free country, not told what to do, but allowed to
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  Speaker 2: govern ourselves, and our unalienable rights be granted to us
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  Speaker 2: every step of the way. And that's my message at
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