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Or America day, or whatever you like to call it.
- Your friend up north

Heh, the actual name for it is Independence Day. But either way it'll be fun getting drunk tonight.

It's important for every American to understand and appreciate the incredible importance of this crucial day in the history of the entire world. On July 4th, 1776, the world changed forever. It's a day every American should celebrate and enjoy their freedom!

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And remember kids, fireworks = good. Fireworks + beer = bad.

Quote from: Hazard on July 04, 2004, 09:51 AM
It's important for every American to understand and appreciate the incredible importance of this crucial day in the history of the entire world. On July 4th, 1776, the world changed forever. It's a day every American should celebrate and enjoy their freedom!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it represent the time when Americans rose up and attacked their mother country?  Canada remained part of the commenwealth for years after that, and we're still an independant country now.  To us, the Queen is just symbolic.

Im pretty crap at history, but its when you kicked Britains arse. Am I right?

Quote from: iago on July 04, 2004, 01:01 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it represent the time when Americans rose up and attacked their mother country?  Canada remained part of the commenwealth for years after that, and we're still an independant country now.  To us, the Queen is just symbolic.

No, it represents a time when Americans rose up against unfair regulation and practices by the British government in order to gain complete sovereignty and run their country as they felt it should be.

Nowadays, I believe even in the UK, the Royal Family is mostly symbolic as parliament does most of the governing.

We did get our asses kicked most of the Revolutionary War. We outsmarted them not beat them with brute force. GO RAMPARTS GO!

Are you british LW?

I love how history gets distorted over time.  The British could have easily defeated the Colonies and ruled for a hundred more years, but their war with France was more immediate and important, requiring more war resources.  They let up on the Colonies only because we did not really matter that much.

At least, that's what the U.S. Navy taught me in officer training.

My dad was in the Navy, he only satyed until hew was Cheif PO or something. WEhat rank did you get up to?

Quote from: Meh on July 04, 2004, 01:15 PM
Im pretty crap at history, but its when you kicked Britains arse. Am I right?

Grrrr

QuoteNowadays, I believe even in the UK, the Royal Family is mostly symbolic as parliament does most of the governing

That's pretty much true

Quote from: Meh on July 04, 2004, 03:56 PM
My dad was in the Navy, he only satyed until hew was Cheif PO or something. WEhat rank did you get up to?

Chief PO is an NCM rank in the Canadian Navy, not sure about American.

Oh, and Canada Day was 3 days ago. It is a much more important day.

Quote from: Raven on July 04, 2004, 02:49 PM

Quote from: iago on July 04, 2004, 01:01 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it represent the time when Americans rose up and attacked their mother country?  Canada remained part of the commenwealth for years after that, and we're still an independant country now.  To us, the Queen is just symbolic.

No, it represents a time when Americans rose up against unfair regulation and practices by the British government in order to gain complete sovereignty and run their country as they felt it should be.

Nowadays, I believe even in the UK, the Royal Family is mostly symbolic as parliament does most of the governing.

Typical Americans.  In Canada, we were too polite to do anything, and it worked out better.