I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy

The Declaration of Independence – John Trumbull (1756-1843)

I was around to celebrate the Bicentennial in 1976, and fifty years later I’m standing tall for the 250th. I always say I want to live to see the Tricentennial, and maybe I will. In the meantime, I’ve been thinking a lot about why I love America as much as I do. Maybe a few of my reasons will resonate with you as well…

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O’er the land of the free…

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Lithography from 1832

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation… Continue reading “O’er the land of the free…”