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Important day John Hancock of Massachusetts signed the Declaration of Independence with a bold, elaborate and most legible flourish. It was followed by the signatures of 55 others from the 13 American colonies, 242 years ago today. And in signing this document they called their erstwhile colonies, "FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES", by appealing to the Protection and divine Providence (the capitals are theirs) and did, "mutually pledge to each other our lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor." On July 4, 1776, this day was no empty pledge. It meant very starkly that each signer had affixed his signature to his own death warrant. Each inscription
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Continued from page 1 convicted its perpetrator, automatically, of treason. Yet such was the overwhelming strength of their patriotism in their fledgling nation that they pledged their all that it might be achieved. And in years of battle, blood, hardship and often despair, it was achieved. Today, over two centuries later, we of America are still a nation bound by the principles set forth in that Declaration and in the Constitution which followed it. John Adams, second President of the United States, wrote of July Fourth - "It out to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the country to the other, from this time forever more."
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