While also looking happily forward at another year of being the land of the free and the home of the brave. So, just as all of us do, America is looking back through cake and candles, and ice cream at yet another year gone by. It seems the Ku Klux Klan has taken to using it in their efforts. In June of this year, Nike® was forced to stop distribution of their new Air Max 1 ‘Betsy Ross Edition” – featuring the 13 star version of the flag. Resolving that the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white and that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation.” And then it gets real pretty, real fast.”Īnd finally, a last historical tidbit: Less than a month before the very first Independence Day celebration, the Continental Congress passed a resolution creating America’s first official flag. Then they pull out the smaller rockets, handing the Roman candles to the children.Īccording to Sanchez, “You leave the special $50 box for the end,” “Once you’ve hit everyone with some good stuff, then you bring out the big dogs. First, the firecracker chains go down - stretching the length of a block and lighting the pavement in a full-on, polychromatic. Everything has to be done on the fly, with an eye toward roving police cars.Įach block has a 20-person explosives team. There are no computers or synchronization to music.
In other celebration news, according to The New York Times, residents of the Inwood neighborhood in northern Manhattan, will gather together again this year for an unsanctioned fireworks competition that pits various blocks against one another – and all the blocks against the police.Īccording to one Ralphy Sanchez, 27, he is confident that his block will put on the best show he estimates that he has about $1,500 of fireworks at the ready, much of it, he said, bought with the proceeds from sales of marijuana.
Last year he ate 74 hot dogs and buns in just over ten minutes – as recorded by MLE (Major League Eating) officials.Īpparently the rise of the official MLE governing body is designed to distinguish Joey Chestnut from just your over-served, glutinous, ass-wipe, cousin Howard. He is the 11-time winner of the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest. Today’s 4th of July festivities also, strangely, include competitive eating and one Joey Chestnut. Which would have been easy enough seeing that colonial Little League toilets were made out of wood. It also did not include shooting a bottle rocket into your neighbor’s open window, or a blown off thumb landing in the borrowed metal folding chair next to you.Īnd it certainly did not include the destruction of Little League toilets with M-80 style firecrackers. It did not include 11 kegs, four pigs on spits, and a Jagermeister® fountain. They held the first official celebration on July 4th, 1777 – despite the fact that the Revolutionary War did not end until 1783.Īccording to reports of the day, this party included, “bonfires, illuminations, and the ringing of bells.” Which means school children can learn valuable civics lessons at the race track.ģ65 days after all this, the founders were ready to celebrate. This painting was later reproduced on the back of the two dollar bill. They then printed the already finished declaration on July 4th – which is where the date comes from.Ī famous John Trumbull painting memorialized the delegates to the 2nd Continental Congress signing the new document. And sometimes it is just a single day off in the middle of the week.Īs we all know, this holiday celebrates the Declaration of Independence having been signed on July 4th, 1776 – however, according to colonial period scholars/virgins who write things on the internet, the document was actually ratified, and signed on July 2nd. Sometimes it is a three day weekend, sometimes it is a four day weekend.
Meanwhile many adults expand or contract their patriotism based on what day of the week the 4th falls on. Like most holidays, The 4th of July is mostly for children.
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