OKC 912 Project
 Independence Day 2016





May your love of freedom and country fill your soul, bless your family, and light the sky with celebration on this day, the birth of our nation.

Happy Independence Day!
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Why fireworks on the Fourth of July? John Adams, that's why.

Planning on enjoying fireworks this Fourth of July? Thank America's first veep: John Adams.

The Boston-born Founding Father, who would later serve as the country's second president, was the one who spurred the idea to light up the skies each Independence Day.

A day after the Continental Congress voted for independence on July 2, 1776 - yes,  July 2nd - Adams wrote a letter from Philadelphia to his wife back home in Boston commemorating the day.

His letter to Abigail Adams, dated July 3, 1776, read in part:

But the Day is past. The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America...

I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.   Keep reading....


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