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Quotes On Freedom
"Freedom has its life in the
hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned
and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it
will wither and die." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The
patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree." - Thomas
Campbell
"My
definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be
unpopular." - Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never
had it taken from you." - Author unknown, sometimes
attributed to M. Grundler
"We on
this continent should never forget that men first crossed the
Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for
their souls." - Robert J. McCracken
"We have to call it 'freedom,' who'd want to die
for 'a lesser tyranny'"? - Mignon McLaughlin, The
Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Quotes On Freedom
Congratulations
to the more than 55,000 who completed
the 42nd running of the
Peachtree Road Racelast Monday. Kudos to Ron Dutton for completing
his sixth consecutive race, all after age 65.
Dear David,
You've just celebrated Independence Day, commemorating America's
independence from the British. But how much do you know about
that event?
Take a look at this month's
newsletter for some surprising facts about the Revolutionary
War. How much do you really know about that important time
period?
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Little-Known
Facts About the
Revolutionary War
There were two Boston tea
parties!
Everyone
knows how 50 or 60 "Sons of Liberty," disguised as
Mohawks, protested the 3 cents per pound British tax on tea by
dumping chests of the popular drink into Boston Harbor on December
16, 1773. Fewer know that the improper Bostonians repeated
the performance on March 7, 1774. The two tea parties cost
the British around $3 million in modern money.
Benjamin Franklin wrote the
first Declaration of Independence!
In 1775, Franklin, disgusted with the arrogance of the
British and appalled by the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord,
wrote a Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson was
enthusiastic. But, he noted, many other delegates to the
Continental Congress were "revolted at it." It
would take another year of bitter conflict to persuade the Congress
to vote for the Declaration of Independence written by Jefferson --
with some astute editorial suggestions by Franklin.
History's first submarine
attack took place in New York Harbor in 1776!
The Connecticut inventor David Bushnell called his
submarine the Turtle because it resembled two large tortoise shells
of equal size joined together. The watertight hull was made
of 6-inch-thick oak timbers coated with tar. On September 6,
1776, the Turtle targeted the HMS Eagle, flagship of the British
fleet. The submarine was supposed to secure a cask of
gunpowder to the hull of the Eagle and sneak away before it
exploded. Unfortunately, the Turtle got entangled with the
Eagle's rudder bar, lost ballast and surfaced before the gunpowder
could be planted.
Benedict Arnold was the best
general in the Continental Army!
"Without Benedict Arnold in the first three years
of the war," says the historian George Neumann, "we would
probably have lost the Revolution." In 1775, the future
traitor came within a whisker of conquering Canada. In 1776,
he built a fleet and fought a bigger British fleet to a standstill
on Lake Champlain. At Saratoga in 1777, his brilliant
battlefield leadership forced the British army to surrender. The
victory persuaded the French to join the war on the American side.
Ironically, Arnold switched sides in 1780 partly because he
disapproved of the French alliance.
George Washington was the best
spymaster in American History!
He ran dozens of espionage rings in British-held New
York and Philadelphia, and the man who supposedly could not tell a
lie was a genius at disinformation. He constantly befuddled
the British by leaking, through double agents, inflated reports on
the strength of his army.
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With the warm months now upon us, more of us are out
on the water. Take two
minutes to view a valuable safety video:
SafetyTV: Boating Safety Tips
Elaine's
Recipe of the Month
Paula Deen's Gooey Butter Cake
Ingredients:
Cake:
1 18 1/4-ounce
package yellow cake mix
1 egg
8 tablespoons
butter, melted
Filling:
1 8-ounce
package cream cheese, softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon
vanilla
8 tablespoons
butter, melted
1 16-ounce box
powdered sugar
Directions:
Preheat oven
to 350 degrees F.
Combine the cake mix, egg, and butter and mix well
with an electric mixer. Pat the mixture into the bottom of a
lightly greased 13 by 9-inch baking pan.
In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese until
smooth. Add the eggs, vanilla, and butter and beat
together.
Next, add the powdered sugar and mix well.
Spread over cake batter and bake for 40 to 50 minutes. Make
sure not to over bake as the center should be a little gooey.
Enjoy!
Fifteen
Cents
This is from
an old story, back in the '30s, in the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less. A 10
year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table.
A waitress put a glass of water in front of him.
"How
much is an ice cream sundae?" the little boy asked.
"Fifty cents," replied the waitress. The little boy
pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied the coins he had.
"Well, how much is a plain dish of ice cream?" he
inquired.
By now, more
people were waiting for a table and the waitress was growing very
impatient. "Thirty-five cents," she brusquely
replied.
The little
boy again counted his coins. "I'll have the plain ice
cream," he said.
The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and
walked away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier
and left. When the waitress came back, she began to cry.
As she wiped
down the table, there placed neatly beside the empty dish were two
nickels and five pennies. You see, he didn't order the sundae
because he wanted to have enough money to leave her a tip.
