Independence Day

Normally I am not patriotic at all, but celebrating July 4 in England brought out my Revolutionary spirit. I read the Declaration of Independence yesterday morning, and cannot agree more:

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We went to a party hosted by some Americans who even provided fireworks! 

Not bad for someone's backyard. 

The British people present mocked us. I was glad to be independent of them.