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Subject: Re: 4th July
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 07:31:36 EDT


In a message dated 07/07/00 11:20:16 AM Central Daylight Time,
writes:

<< Wanted to share this - it's how my husband responded to the discussion
regarding 4th of July, "our" Independence Day - vs. how it was regarded in
Britain...

>
"...the Brits celebrate our July 4th Independence Day....they just call it
Thanksgiving..."

Maybe he's right -- we'd probably always have been a troublesome lot!
>>
I had read in the diary of an English officer of the period he described the
American Revolution as; "That spot of bother in the colonies." Not really
considered very important at the time, considering we had a war in France
going on, or should that read "another war in France."
DaveM.

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