"Independence Day" ramblings from an "old" guy!

I hope that everybody's having a great Independence Day! We had our little "get-together" last night, on account of tomorrow is a "work" day, and history has proven to me that if I get too "sociable" on the day just before a work day I have a hard time making it to the actual "work" part, so our celebration and barbeque is already "said and done"! My good wife had to work today, so basically I'm just left here with my own thoughts and a computer, which is probably not such a good thing. I wonder if I'm the only "blogger" who can only type with his two "index" fingers? See? Right there was a perfect example of the stupid things my brain comes up with at times like these! I also wonder which one of my grandchildren ate all of my hot and spicy pork rinds that are supposed to be here on the computer desk, AND left the lid off of my jar of peanuts, but I'm sure that information is "classified", and the best I can do is make highly uneducated guesses, right Paige? I like the fourth of July, mostly because it's all about the "history" of how our Great Nation came to be. Occasionally, I may get some of the "details" a little mixed up, but overall I think I could be a pretty good teacher at some elementary school somewhere, provided that it was a "union" type of job and I had "tenure", and couldn't be fired even if I taught the kid's to urinate on the gymnasium floor. I'm not sure that schools really want their teachers to inform our children anymore, at least not in the way we "older" people were informed. I wonder if young school-agers today even know who "Paul Revere" was? Sure. OUR generation knows all about "Paul", and how he sent General George Washington a "text" message informing him that the "British were coming", forcing General Washington into an uncontrollable "rage", in which he chopped down a cherry tree and threw it across the Delaware river for a dollar? I think it's even possible that today's children don't even realize that Abraham Lincoln had to do his homework by writing on the back of a shovel with a "Kingsford Edge" charcoal briquette every time the electricity went out, or even how many failed attempts it took before Thomas Edison was successfully able to connect the famed "black light" to his stereo system in a way that made the beautiful "Farrah Fawcett's" teeth bask in the glow on her posters in virtually everybody's bedrooms back in the seventies? What about Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the "party-line", which is still used today in parts of the "deep" south, where everybody's related anyway? There's way too many great people who have done a number of great things to mention in this particular "blog", and possibly, like I stated before, I may have some of the actual "facts" screwed up, but don't let THAT bother you! Know that I love this great Country, and that I believe NO sacrifice is "too much" to keep it! Have a "Blessed" day today my Friends, and know that the United States of America has always been kind of a "one-shot" chance to avoid the tyranny of rule by people who know little more about life than you do. This is what GOD intended for us! Let's keep it going! Also, I would like to say that: May the Good Lord Bless and keep You, whether near or far away! May the Good You shine on Others, shine on YOU today! May Your Hearts be filled with music, that would fill the hearts of men, and may the Good Lord Bless and Keep You, until we meet again! Finally signing off Friends!