JULY 4, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
July 4 is … National Country Music Day and Tom Sawyer Fence-Painting Day
Play this song to start your holiday. Play it while you read.
Happy Fourth of July, long live and God bless America. The times we are living in make being an American harder than they once were. Personally, I am not always proud of our countries behavior but I am proud to be an American. The United States of America is not perfect but it beats second place exponentially. People from around the globe do not come to this country and plan ways of sneaking out, other than a few international criminals and terrorists. People do spend a lifetime longing forward to the day they can come to America.
America and Americans invented or perfected an unending list of products, ideas and rights that have been borrowed by most of the civilized world.
America gave the world;
Freedom of expression
Freedom of the press
Separation of church and state
Equal rights for all, although our country has had a problem fully embracing this ideal and still does
Baseball
Basketball
American football
Nuclear energy
Nuclear power
Thomas Edison
Elvis Presley
Frank Sinatra
Free and open elections
The Interstate Highway system concept, perhaps lifted from the Germans but perfected by Americans
Electricity
The light bulb
The forty hour work week
The assembly line
Plastics
Nylon
NASA
A man on the moon
Santa Claus as he is now depicted
Coke
Pepsi
The ice cream cone
Abe Lincoln
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Executive, legislative and judicial branches of government
The Eagles
The 1980 United States Olympic Hockey Team
Motion Pictures
Satellites
Facebook
Google
The telephone
The telegraph
The Greatest Generation, those men and women who saved the world by fighting, dying and winning WW II as well as the generation before them that won WW I
The Far Side
The Godfather movies
Marlon Brando
Jack Nicholson
Robert De Nero
Katherine Hepburn
John Wayne
Rio Bravo
Dean Martin
Bing Crosby
The Wright Brothers
The airplane
Bill Gates
Windows
The cotton gin
Jonas Salk
The polio vaccine
Medical technology that has eradicated numerous diseases from the face of the earth
Cotton candy
The bottle cap
The rocket
The smoke detector
The zipper
Candy corn
The mousetrap
The tractor
Volleyball
Charcoal briquettes
The muffler
Thumbtack
Nickel-zinc battery
Teddy bear
Air conditioning
Tea-bag
Banana Split
Fly-swatter
Batting helmet
Fast food restaurant
Fortune cookie
This is a partial list and does not include many of the inventions or technological advancements we have made in the last 30 years. America is an impressive country. The world is better off because America exists than it would be otherwise. Many of the inventions and advancements would have been made by someone in another country but it would have been years later.
As most Americans and many democracy scholars know, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two important and influential men who helped greatly in the shaping of our country and its form of government died on the same day. These men were. off and on, friends, political rivals, political allies, enemies, and friends again. They both died on July 4th, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson in Monticello, Virginia and Adams in Quincy Massachusetts. Neither man knew the other had died and it is only speculated now as to who died first. At the time, records of such things were not kept with great accuracy and were easily manipulated or changed to suit a person’s needs.
God bless America.
Just a couple of thoughts I had and you should too.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
DEKALB, IL 60115
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Book Titles:
Holmes the Ripper
A Revengeful Mix of Short Fiction
Nathan Hale, a American spy in the Revolutionary War was captured by the British. He was hanged on September 22, 1776. His last words were the famous line:
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
