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Hello all,  

Just a warm Summer wish to everyone on this very special Holiday week...  

For patriots, The birth of our nation, the fight for our independence, the tens of thousands of lives that have been sacrificed and just as many that have willingly given their last full measure in service of the Dream that became this incredible country.  

Without that sacrifice, not a single one of us that enjoys the freedoms we have today would be here, nor would be able to express who we are. To hold civil dialogue. To know what liberty actually is and what it actually means.  

In human history, this extraordinary birth of a nation, no matter what you may believe or how much one may hate how society and politics have devolved and seem to be getting worse - but this County. This dream, still lives in the spirits of those who, somehow managed, to come together at a certain time and place in history, and write a firmament of a dream of true freedom, and true human liberty, in such a way as has never been known before in all of humanity.

I am a deeply patriotic woman and would give my last breath to defend this country and all she stands for, in the face of ever increasing and brutal social strife, both within, and without the boundaries and borders of our nation....But i cannot imagine being anyplace else in the world as a free woman. A special woman. A TS woman that has a chance to survive and actualize myself in this world. No greater blessing than having grown up in a time and place where such a thing was even possible for me.  

I am thankful for my country, and our men, women, and families struggling in harm's way on this day, and all those in the same waters both past, and future to come. Salute to the highest for all those that sacrifice their own lives and liberties to keep us all safe as they can, this day, and every day, without fail or falter. Salute to this great nation and all the potentials as yet unrealized here in this special place.  

Happy Independence Day!!!  

LoveRespectAllways,

TheAngelaGirl