Happy Independence Day!
To my American Voxer friends, have a happy 4th of July!
Last year I commemorated the day by thanking you for my favorite US export, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. This year, my favorite US (soon-to-be) export is celebrating with his family in southern NJ.
All the red, white and blue makes me think of the West Wing, another fine product of the US, which taught me a great deal about your politics and governance and history (who knew about Big Block of Cheese Day before Aaron Sorkin immortalized it?). So I'll let Sam Seaborn take us out with a little history lesson:
Sam (to schoolchildren): The White House, as you know, was built several years ago. Mostly, if I'm not mistaken, out of cement. The room we're in right now, the Roosevelt Room, is very famous. It is named after our 18th president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The chairs that you're sitting on today are fashioned from the lumber of a pirate ship captured during the Spanish-American...
Mallory: All right. Kids, I need to speak to Mr. Seaborn.
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I loved West Wing -- and that episode in which the kids knew more than Sam did...
HAPPY FOURTH to all dem American Peeps!
Loved your post....thanks from one of those American Peeps