14 thoughts on “4th July USA, 4th July”

1. Thanks for the reminder, Roger. Yes, the struggle … the fight, actually … continues. Perhaps it always will. I think you guys should be the ones celebrating this day … you got rid of those stubborn, pesky yanks!

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   • It was bound to happen.
     Throwing all that tea into Boston Harbour….tsk-tsk 🤨

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     • Well, since you bring that little episode up … the thing is that we ordered COFFEE and you sent us tea. Not once, but multiple times! 🙄 Your customer service department refused to issue a refund, so … what else were we to do with all that tea??? 😉

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     • I, on the behalf of the UK, apologise for that failure in the supply chain.🤔
       However I must point out that Frugality is a virtue and cite the wise old saying ‘Waste Not Want Not’😇

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     • Apology accepted … thank you. Well, we tried not to waste it, but nobody except a few rich dudes wanted to drink it, and we were running out of warehouse space, so … what else could we do?

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     • https://simplelooseleaf.com/blog/life-with-tea/how-to-use-leftover-tea/

       (Obviously in those days for ‘3’ the word would be ‘pantry’)

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     • 🤣🤣 Okay, I give … you WIN! We were wrong to dump the tea, especially since some poor fishies probably ate it and became addicted to caffeine! I might have known you’d have an answer!!!

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     • You can retire the guy from the Civil Service , but you can’t …………😉

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     • 😊

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     • Anyway you could have arranged a trade swap:
       

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     • Hmmmm … yes, I suppose we could have tried that, though we weren’t on the best of terms with Brazil at that moment.

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     • Tea smugglers and coffee-blockade runners….
       Buckle their swashes..Ho-ho me harties etc.

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2. Dear Roger,

   Thank you for the reminder. Lest we forget!

   To resonate with your post, please let me remind all of us of the significance of democratic freedom by quoting Judge Billings Learned Hand’s speech known as “The Spirit of Liberty“, which he delivered as the final speech of the “I Am an American Day” event celebrated in New York City on 21 May 1944 as follows:

   We have gathered here to affirm a faith, a faith in a common purpose, a common conviction, a common devotion. Some of us have chosen America as the land of our adoption; the rest have come from those who did the same. For this reason we have some right to consider ourselves a picked group, a group of those who had the courage to break from the past and brave the dangers and the loneliness of a strange land. What was the object that nerved us, or those who went before us, to this choice? We sought liberty; freedoms from oppression, freedom from want, freedom to be ourselves. This we then sought; this we now believe that we are by way of winning. What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty? I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty, and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few; as we have learned to our sorrow.

   What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the mind of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned but never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest. And now in that spirit, that spirit of an America which has never been, and which may never be; nay, which never will be except as the conscience and courage of Americans create it; yet in the spirit of that America which lies hidden in some form in the aspirations of us all; in the spirit of that America for which our young men are at this moment fighting and dying; in that spirit of liberty and of America I ask you to rise and with me pledge our faith in the glorious destiny of our beloved country.

   May you celebrate the 4th of July with glee to your heart’s content. Moreover, please let me leave you with something positive for the start of the second half of 2021 as follows:
   
   Happy Sunday!
   Happy July!
   Happy Independence Day!
   Happy Summertime!
   

   In SUMMER the song sings itself

   ― William Carlos Williams

   

   Yours sincerely,
   SoundEagle

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   • Stirring words I’ve not seen before (being on ‘The Other Side of The Pond’).
     Against those how small and grubby compares the previous occupant of the Whitehouse.

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