America

Happy 221st Birthday, America

Fun Facts:

• Pennsylvania and South Carolina where the only two states that voted "NO" to the Constitution.
• In 1801, the first public Fourth of July reception at the White House occurred.
• In 1804, the first Fourth of July celebration west of the Mississippi occurred at Independence Creek and was celebrated by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
• Did you know that the words "Under God" weren't added until 1954 to the Pledge of Allegiance?
• Every 4th of July the Liberty Bell is tapped - not actually rung.
• It is only appropriate to fly the flag upside down, but only in an emergency. It means "Help Me, I am in Trouble!"
• In 1976, the nation's Bicentennial occurs.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
--Abraham Lincoln

The Pledge of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands.
One nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

It is IMPOSSIBLE rightly to govern the world without God and the Bible.
--Unknown (emphasis added)

Happy 4th to everyone!