Instead of Protests on on Independence Day Celebrate Our Independence and Honor the Sacrifices of Those Patriots Who Became Casualties of the Revolutionary War

 

Our achieving independence from England was never a cake walk
A lack of a navy to successfully defeat the men of war the English used to our ports block
State militias that were poorly trained, often shoeless, not well armed
A Continental Congress with deaf ears to Washington’s lack of funding alarms
At one point in the Revolutionary War the Continental Army had shrunk to 5000 men
It was only time when the large number of Loyalists feeling patriots’ defeat was not if only when
From the “Shot heard round the world on April 19, 1775” to the British surrender at Yorktown
On October 19, 1981 as a British band played “The World Turned Upside Down”
The 13 colonies were awash in blood and destruction by forces of the British Crown
Some 27,000 colonists died from combat, disease and captivity especially in prison ships where heinous conditions the will to live shut down
Sounds like a small number but it represented over 1 percent of the population
Compared to .3 percent during World War II of the “Greatest Generation”
We are the greatest nation on earth a magnet that attracted 20 million+ illegals during the Biden years
But the left is abandoning the 4^th of July Celebrations in favor of protests is what we now hear
Today be a patriot, wear your red, white and blue and with family and friends ape the 1777 Celebrations in Philadelphia: an official dinner for the Continental Congress, toasts,13 gun salutes, speeches, prayers, music, parades, troop reviews, and fireworks and red, white and blue decking ships in report
Today tell the leftists hell bent on destroying our celebrations, traditions and history it is time to those protests abort
Resist the efforts of the leftists to belittle and defame this nation again and again
Heed the words of Alexander Purdy editor of the Virginia Gazette, “Thus may the 4th of July, that glorious and every memorable day, be celebrated through America, by the sons of freedom from age to age, till time shall be no more. Amen and Amen.”

© July 4^th 2025 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet