Celebrate Independence

Written By:  Andrew Eide

This month, on July Fourth, we celebrated the Independence of the United States of America. I am not going to get into a political discussion on who the people of the day wanted independence and freedom from. You can research that on your own.

Today I am just going to talk about freedom and independence in general terms and how they relate to what we have in the United States of America, or at least what our Founding Fathers envisioned for our country.

These people who founded the United States of America wanted freedom from oppression and independence to make decisions on their own without being dictated to by others. Obviously back on those days things were not equal as they wanted them to be. There was a lot of oppression and discrimination and people on one side dictating to the people on the other side. However, to be fair to those who drafted up the Declaration of Independence, their intentions were good and they were working on what ideals and concepts they had at that point in time.

There are many countries in the world where people do not have the generous freedoms we enjoy here in the United States. In some countries women have no rights or privileges. In some countries persons of the ruling class look down on those less-fortunate ones who are in a different class. In other cultures there is one religious group which is in the majority and they suppress all the other minority religions because they can get away with it.

I am very happy I was born in the United States of America. I am very happy that I married a wonder woman, Becx, who is from the Philippines, and that she has the opportunity to live and work here in the United States. I am happy that we still have privileges and freedoms here which are not available to many people around the world.

Although people in the United States complain and moan about everything they should instead realize what a blessing they have living here.