Happy 4th . . . and

[Casting Fool]

From: "Huw Powell" <audi at humanspeakers.com>
> be ever mindful of the sort of people history gives us as heroes.

'Tis better said, that it is foolish to allow anyone to tell you who your
own heroes should be.

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Freedom to drive the Audi vehicle (or VW, in my case) of one's choice, to
travel freely from home to Audi event and back again, to have more than one
sweet ride bearing "the entwined circlets of perfection", are all the result
of someone somewhere in one's nation's past giving their life to preserve
the level of personal freedom that one currently enjoys.

There's blood in the asphalt that one travels, as well as in the soil that
one treads.

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While I harbor no ill feelings toward our present day UK friends, I'm damned
glad that those "dissenters and rebels, troublemakers" kicked the backsides
of those "patriots", clear back across the Atlantic.

Heroes?  Yes, I personally consider them American heroes, all 57 of them.
57?

John Houstoun's signature (one of 4 GA Continental Congress delegates) was
missing from the Declaration of Independence because he'd been sent by the
Congress to pursue one of those "patriots", a Rev. John J. Zubly.

Zubly, a Congressional delegate, apparently had misgivings when he learned
of the Congress' intent to seek independence, and he "spilled the tea", so
to speak, to the British Governor in Savannah, Georgia.  He was caught, but
escaped; hence Houstoun's pursuit.

Houstoun missed out on the official signing of the Declaration of
Independence on August 2, 1776, but IMHO he's just as much a hero as the
others who did sign it, as well the tens of thousands of others who have
been wounded or died to preserve it in the years since.

Just my $0.02.

TTFN - Mike Jackson
Casting Fool & Son
Augusta, GA  USA
http://www.cfnson.com