Fourth of July ACTION KIT

HAPPY JULY FOURTH
PROCLAMATION and INDOOR ACTION KIT

Thank you to those of you who marched over to the Sterling community
Center last night. It was packed and very productive. A new committee
has been formed with representatives from many of Sterling's existing
social, charitible and business action groups.

You all are in the drivers' seat and this Sterling Blvd. Improvement
project will grow bigger and bigger in the years ahead. The room was
filled with excitement and promise.

WAY TO GO STERLING. THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING.

Now back to the Fourth of July. *Permission Granted to Send On to Family
and Friends.*

The Declaration of Independence is seen as that document that
established the new nation of the United States. The date of its formal
acceptance by the Continental Congress, July 4, 1776, is celebrated each
year in the U.S. with fireworks, parties, citizenship ceremonies, and
baseball games.

This is a tradition encouraged by formal acts of Congress, the founding
fathers, Presidential proclamations and various other federal, national
and legal laws, edicts, resolutions, etc.

Independence Day is celebrated on July 4 because that is the day when
the Continental Congress adopted the final draft of the Declaration of
Independence (Except for the U.S. Virgin Islands where celebrations are
held a week prior to the climax on 4th of July.)

30 DAYS OF NIGHTLY FIREWORKS THROUGHOUT USA.

From July 8, 1776, until the next month, the document was read publicly
and people celebrated whenever they heard it. The next year, in
Philadelphia, bells rang and ships fired guns, candles and firecrackers
were lighted. But the War of Independence dragged on until 1783, and in
that year, Independence Day was made an official holiday. 1941 Congress
declared 4th of July a federal holiday.

JOHN ADAMS, SAYS "FIREWORKS AND BONFIRES FROM THIS TIME FORWARD...."

John Adams, credited by Thomas Jefferson as the unofficial, tireless
whip of the independence-minded, wrote his wife Abigail on July 3, 1776:

The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the
history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by
succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be
commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to
God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with
shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one
end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore.

READ THE DECLARATON

Here's the text of the Declaration of Independence.

http://www.usconstitution.net/declar.html

>>>>>HERE IS SOME FUN STUFF.

Today, allow me to provide you with some fun online activities to help
with the indoor time.

Read the Loudoun Easterner and other newspapers to find out about the
OUTDOOR actvities (Dulles Town Center fireworks, July 2, Claude Moore
Park July 4, A.M. activities, Conservative Soiree, 12 noon, and then the
Mall Fireworks July 4 etc.)

ONLINE FIREWORKS FOR YOUR HOME

First a black screen. Than, click and see what happens. Make sure you
have the volume up. Great for kids

http://www.maylin.net/Fireworks2.html

Slightly different fireworks display, just click away.

http://www.maylin.net/Fireworks.html

Same show, but now above a nightline of NYC.

http://www.njagyouth.org/liberty.htm

On the "Phantom website", you can see fireworks screensavers, games,
e-cards, movies of shows at different cities, and yes, you can shoot
fireworks on line at any city of your choosing.

http://www.fireworks.com/interactive/default.asp

>>>>>>OKAY EUGENE ONE MORE GAME

Game: Create your own fireworks display online and then replay it.

http://www.uptoten.com/kids/boowakwala-events-newyear-fireworks.html

????? Reading Only ?????

Zambelli, the first family of fireworks in America homesite has some
newsletters in pdf (kind of boring but interesing reading)

http://www.zambellifireworks.com/home.html

>>>>>OKAY, SOME MUSIC

Recommended:
Happy Fourth of July! Nice card with music and display.

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=JV24404135

>>>>CRAFTS FOR PEACEFUL PARTY

Family Crafts with coloring pages and much more: fun fireworks you can
create safely!

http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/independenceday/a/060401a_3.htm

>>>>THIS IS DEFINITELY DIFFERENT

Yanshui Fireworks Display- a most spectacular "audio-visual" show at the
YanShui Fireworks Display, but put on your hard hats first. Click on
"video".

http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/glue_e/tainan.htm

>>>>TIRED OF NOISE, PEACEFUL READING

Fireworks facts and history from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireworks

HOLD ONTO YOUR CHAIR: DELGAUDIO HAS A RIGHT WING ICE CREAM?

Now you can buy ice cream produced by a pro-Armed Forces crowd that vows
to "defeat" leftist ice cream with "rightwing" icecream. I know the
producers of this and they have good stuff (completely independent of me
or any member of my family), funny themes and 10 per cent goes to
various charities that support the U.S. Armed Forces.

VISIT THE WEBSITE or go to 800 retail Seven- eleven outlets that are
stocking Eugene Delgaudio's favorite Star Spangled Ice Cream in flavors
like "Fighting Marine Tough Cookie".

http://www.starspangledicecream.com/new/index1.htm

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION

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most generous donation today. I promise quick action to community needs
and leadership on patriotic and conservative causes. If you are not on
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THE END.