Military Spectacle for July 4

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So now he’s part of the partisan main stream got it! Yeah makes perfect sense
 
Some fireworks caught by hubble

spectacular view of the double star system Eta Carinae’s expanding gases glowing in red, white and blue.
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Reagan July 4 1986

A Nation Built on a Universal Claim to Human Dignity​

… it’s important for us, too, to be brave; not so much the bravery of the battlefield, I mean the bravery of brotherhood.

All through our history, our Presidents and leaders have spoken of national unity and warned us that the real obstacle to moving forward the boundaries of freedom, the only permanent danger to the hope that is America, comes from within. It’s easy enough to dismiss this as a kind of familiar exhortation. Yet the truth is that even two of our greatest Founding Fathers, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, once learned this lesson late in life. They’d worked so closely together in Philadelphia for independence. But once that was gained and a government was formed, something called partisan politics began to get in the way. After a bitter and divisive campaign, Jefferson defeated Adams for the Presidency in 1800. And the night before Jefferson’s inauguration, Adams slipped away to Boston, disappointed, brokenhearted, and bitter.

For years their estrangement lasted. But then when both had retired, Jefferson at 68 to Monticello and Adams at 76 to Quincy, they began through their letters to speak again to each other. Letters that discussed almost every conceivable subject: … and of course the last thoughts, the final hopes of two old men, two great patriarchs, for the country that they had helped to found and loved so deeply. “It carries me back,” Jefferson wrote about correspondence with his cosigner of the Declaration of Independence, “to the times when, beset with difficulties and dangers, we were fellow laborers in the same cause, struggling for what is most valuable to man, his right to self-government. Laboring always at the same oar, with some wave ever ahead threatening to overwhelm us and yet passing harmless … we rowed through the storm with heart and hand . …” It was their last gift to us, this lesson in brotherhood, in tolerance for each other, this insight into America’s strength as a nation. And when both died on the same day within hours of each other, that date was July 4th, 50 years exactly after that first gift to us, the Declaration of Independence.

My fellow Americans, it falls to us to keep faith with them and all the great Americans of our past. Believe me, if there’s one impression I carry with me … it is this: that the things that unite us — America’s past of which we’re so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much-loved country — these things far outweigh what little divides us. And so tonight we reaffirm that Jew and gentile, we are one nation under God; that black and white, we are one nation indivisible; that Republican and Democrat, we are all Americans. …
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Sentiments I recall, from the time. I’m old. And would it were so.

But he referenced Jefferson and Adams. As we know, now, we must only denigrate such.
dvdjs said:
…that the things that unite us — America’s past of which we’re so proud…
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GKMotley said:
But he referenced Jefferson and Adams. As we know, now, we must only denigrate such.
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One could dwell on that.
One might instead remember:
the things that unite us — America’s past of which we’re so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much-loved country — these things far outweigh what little divides us. And so tonight we reaffirm that Jew and gentile, we are one nation under God; that black and white, we are one nation indivisible; that Republican and Democrat, we are all Americans
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Yes. As I said. Would it were so.
ALL of it - all of us.
 
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What a beautiful tribute to the military and salute to America by the President.
 
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Only in America, a president can be proud of his country and a whole political party hates him for it. This has to be a punchline.
 
A great celebration and thanks to President Trump for making it possible. Everything was outstanding!
The weather a little damp but no problem. Great Again!! Proud to be an American! God Bless America!
 
They hated him before he became President so why should they change now, even if he put on a nice show?

He put on nice shows at his casinos too and where are they today? Atlantic City today looks like a graveyard.
 
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And what does your animosity towards President Trump and his casinos have to do with Patriotism? A president is proud of America and you hate that?
 
Trump’s fetishising of the military isn’t the same thing as patriotism.
 
PaulinVA said:
So, if you read the stories about how all of this started, it would be obvious he didn’t know.
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Still waiting for you to link to one of these stories and show some support for you argument.

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Well, anecdotally, my extensive military family and his poll numbers with active duty servicemen and women seem to bear out that he is well-liked. That was an awesome, inspiring speech, IMO. It would seem to me you would have to be the ultimate cynic to oppose that, especially when the argument going in was it was going to be all about him. It wasn’t about him at all.

Where are all the oracles who were so fearful we’d have a political speech centered on just Trump?
 
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I didn’t crap on anything. I didn’t know what Trump might do. He does have the ability to stick to a script when he absolutely has to.

Though I don’t know if that part where the Continental Army took to the air and captured airports around Fort McHenry was part of the script. I think an editor should have caught that.

That being said, I’ve long since opposed this kind of jingoism. Before Trump too.
 
Progs, I found your evidence
Trump is definitely a Nazi,
why else would Israel name a square after him
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Which is fair if jingoism isn’t your thing. I love it myself.

And living near Fort McHenry, admittedly, I am unfamiliar with any battles over the Thurgood Marshall BWI runways.
 
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That was an awesome, inspiring speech, IMO.
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I love it when we learn new history – our school lessons never taught us about how the army took the airports before they even existed. For shame, hiding that from us!!
 
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