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Originally posted by patentparanyc
Did everyone have a nice July 4th/5th?
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Yes. I'd had a moving experience that I'd like to share. For the holiday weekend I had custody of my two young sons. In order to strip away the glitzy commercialism of the holiday (they have their mother to provide mindnumbing b.s.) we spent some time learning about what the day really means. We read the Declaration of Independence and parts of the Federalist Papers and then on the afternoon of the 4th we took part in a Support the Troops and the President rally at a local park. To make the civics lesson complete a particularly ungroomed anti-homeland defense ranter confronted my 9 year old son by shouting obscenities and calling him a murderous imperialist dog in the making. Apparently, having absorbed some of the lessons of the day and others from watching the news, my son, without prompting from me, cooly responded, "President Thomas Jefferson once said that timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. We are here to celebrate liberty and you're type is not wanted, why don't you go to France!" Out of the mouths of babes! He got three scoops at Friendlys for that one. With jimmies.
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