Our 6:30am class kicking butt during the hour of jumprope on Wednesday.
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Reminder: We are CLOSED today and tomorrow, Sunday, July 5th. We will resume normal business hours on Monday morning. Thanks and have a great holiday!
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Patriotism
by Amanda
Patriotism by definition is the love of one's country. Today we are all celebrating the "birth" of our country. The official day that America became independent from the KIngdom of Great Britain, through the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Below is a copy of the Dunlap broadside publication which were the first copies of the United States Declaration of Independence, printed on the night of July 4, 1776 by John Dunlap of Philadelphia.
I'd have to say...I have never read the actual text in the Declaration of Independence until yesterday. If you would like to read it, click here. I know we are thankful for all of the servicemen and women that have lost their lives or are currently serving our country, to maintain our freedom. Happy Birthday United States of America!
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Today's WOD:
Run a 10K for time.
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Amanda! You and Dave are terrific for posting the text link. Its a document that can't be read enough, by any of us...(uh oh...not another guilt lecture...Just kidding!). JK, thank you for the segment from the WSJ.
Get some.
Posted by: ilario | July 05, 2009 at 12:53 PM
From the WSJ:
The Last Best Hope for Earth
“…Lincoln also understood that the struggle over the Declaration was part of an eternal struggle between two principles at the basis of all government. "They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle," as he put it in one of his famous debates with Stephen A. Douglas. "The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings."
The struggle continues today. Terrorists and dictators hate the United States for its founding principles. They prefer to rob people of liberty, subjugate women, and spread their power by the sword. Yet America still has iron men and women who stand up to such tyrants. These iron men are now fighting on battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Declaration of Independence is not a legal document in the same sense as the Constitution. No one talks about a law being "undeclarational," or opines about their "declarational rights." Yet it remains the first and in some ways most universal of our great founding documents. As Lincoln said in Philadelphia in February 1861, there is "something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time."
As long as the United States stands fast for the moral principles of July 4, 1776, we will continue to be the bulwark of freedom, the last best hope of earth.”
Posted by: jk | July 04, 2009 at 02:03 PM