INDEPENDANCE DAY

[Hammer Gun]

Charlie, I started the day on my John Deere putting my driveway back from the 3 inches of rain last night not from the hurricane but from a cold front that came through last night . But I started the day by putting a Brisket on the grill at 8 o'clock for a slow 7 hr cooking had that a good salad and some home made biscuits, and opened a bottle of our home made wine, shared this with my brother and his wife, a really good day, you should get out that old eight gauge Parker and do some of your on " bombs bursting in air" Gary

[J. A. EARLY]

Charlie,

Glad to see the words INDEPENDENCE DAY. I went to a car show today and had to listen to the DJ say Happy July 4th about a hundred times over six hours, never once calling it Independence Day.

My ancestor John Morris who joined the Continental Army at age 17, for reasons we will never know and probably could not understand today, never did much that would be considered heroic (guarded Hessian prisoners for two years and deployed to the field only twice), but he and thousands more gained our declared INDEPENDENCE.