1776 – Hatching an Egg
A evening pause: On this day, July 2nd, the day the Founding Fathers actually signed the Declaration of Independence, I think it appropriate to once again watch this wonderful song from the 1976 movie version of the 1972 musical, 1776. As I said in earlier posts of this song on Independence Day, “not only did the musical capture the essence of the men who made independency happen, it is also a rollicking and entertaining work of art.”
And despite the hate being spewed against America and its founding principle that all humans are created free with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that truth still shines. As John Kennedy said of himself, ourselves, and these founding fathers. “We stand for freedom.”
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
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52 second video of a delivery man picking up an American flag that blew to the ground.
Warning: will cause tears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG0jzzB4G8o
I was 10 that year. I had watched every Trek ep. My Mom told me I wasn’t a child anymore…to focus on practical things.
Politically, defeatism was in the air even in 1976. No shuttle launch yet…Logan’s Run for space opera… Capt Kangaroo’s 76 trombones was chromakeyed images of just one…and some talking head going on about America being overripe post Nam.
But the sailing ships in New York…even more than this film-saved the day…as did the space movies that finished the decade…
James-
good stuff.
Jeff-
The 70’s were….. unique.
Tommy Shaw / Contemporary Youth Orchestra Cleveland
“Too Much Time On My Hands”
https://youtu.be/dASsnykRwm4
6:06
Congress approved the Declaration on July 2. They sent it to the printer and it came back on the 4th. Many delegates did do the actual signing until August.
“Changing of the American Flag Over Lafayette’s Tomb, Paris, July 4”
France Revisited 2009
https://youtu.be/o2wlALvJNdQ
5:11
ITS COMING : https://youtu.be/NVM32i4V04E
For those of you who are really not paying that close of attention. Desperation breeds contempt, and there are no more desperate human beings in America other than the Democrat leadership and the Leftists driving there agenda.
The only question remains, how far will the Democrats and those internal operatives in government and in the media go to stop what must be?
I suggest you buckle up, its going to become very, very contentious. But “IT” is coming :)
Happy July 4th, Independence Day America.
wayne
July 3, 2021 at 8:28 am
Jeff-
The 70’s were….. unique.
Not nearly unique enough.
Paul Whiteman –
“It’s Only A Paper Moon” 1933
https://youtu.be/JCUqKlldc8E
3:20
To New Horizons (1940)
https://youtu.be/aIu6DTbYnog
23:00
“Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors…”
Sorry I’m a day late, but Happy 4th of July my American adversaries and fellow space nuts!
I don’t always show it, but there is a lot I actually admire about the US, and I have respect that you built a country from scratch.
( I spent the 4th at the lake with my kids, picnicking, a couple of cold ones, and feeding the baby ducks… A pastime I’m sure transcends the pond between us.)