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Default 4th of July!

We hope that everyone in the States is having a great Independence Day weekend. We'll head to the AAA ballpark, where fireworks will follow the game.

However--and regardless of where you are from--take some time to study the U.S. Founding Fathers. Better yet--read their original words. It is amazing that men like Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison and so many more gathered to pour the foundation for what would become the United States.

The personal stories of many Founding Fathers are equally outstanding. These included the long political feud between Adams and Jefferson in the early 1800's, following be a reconciliation that brought us a priceless set of letters between the two. Both lived a very long time and died on the same day of the same year--on July 4th.

The little boy in the picture of Franklin flying his kite in the thunderstorm is his son William. Much later William became a Loyalist governor of New Jersey. This split Ben from his only son. The two remained estranged for life, with William moving to England.

Then in 1861 we had "another" Civil War that split many families as well. But that is another set of stories...
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