hi everybody i hope you had a happy and safe 4th of july parades cookouts fireworks we celebrate at the white house with the few hundreds members and the military to remember what our independence day is all about what happened 237 years ago and what it meant to the world on july 4th 1776 small band of patriots declared that we were the people that created equal free to think and worship and live as we please it was a decoration heard around the world that we were no longer columns we are americans and our destiny will not be determined for us, it will be determined by us. it was both tremendrously brave thing to do it was also merely unthinkable but the times kings and emperors ruled the world those patrions were certain better ways were possible 