Volume 51 - No. 26
By Friedrich Gomez
If your editor calls you into his office and tells you to write up a new angle, new information, and something totally different with “shocking, never-before historical insights on our 4th of July” --well, you’d be pretty much screwed, blued, and tattooed!
I mean, c’mon, journalists, historians, newspapers, scholars, and TV newscasters everywhere have picked over the bones of every known colorful detail from our Independence Day -- to the extent that anything pertaining to July 4 would be the “Kiss of Death” for any (crusading) reporter today. In King’s English, 4th of July narratives will be lost in the din of today’s garden-variety ‘write-ups’ – which are now tedious, repetitive, and ALREADY KNOWN visitations!
And, as Ernest Hemingway cautioned, it’s off-limits waxing over sentimental real-life patriotic narratives – not because they aren’t important, they are – but as the Great One admonished, such common drivel will already be in overabundance, everywhere, and joining their ranks: “Would just be too easy without NEW FACTS. Like cheating. Like playing tennis with the net down.”
4TH OF JULY’S LOST SECRETS. In this most exclusive report, readers of The Paper will depart company from just about every other major print and visual media in the U. S.
You will have a special front row roller coaster ride in learning new exciting and colorful facts about our country that will be eye-opening, startling, and simply unbelievable!
In short, a Long Lost Legacy awaits you.
And, a most unexpected and colorful journey is yours, which you will never forget! WHICH U. S. PRESIDENT & FOUNDING FATHER ACTUALLY REFUSED TO CELEBRATE 4TH OF JULY?
This question, alone, seems unrealistic, even impossible, to even soberly consider – yet, it’s true! A. George Washington. B. Thomas Jefferson. C. John Adams. The Paper - 760.747.7119
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Unbelievably, the correct answer is “C” for John Adams, one of our most patriotic Founding Fathers and a staunch vocal supporter for our Declaration of Independence! John Adams, our second U. S. President after George Washington, was never happy about the selected date of July 4th and therefore refused to celebrate the 4th of July throughout his lifetime! Adams long believed that July 2nd was the correct historical day for observance, not July 4.
In a personal letter to his wife, Abigail, dated July 3, 1776, he wrote: “The Second Day of July 1776 will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.”
However, when July 4 was selected, Adams fumed in volatile anger and forever disagreed. His unbridled anger was so intense that he not only refused to celebrate the 4th of July, but, he vowed to never even appear or attend at any 4th of July events or celebrations throughout his lifetime, as a matter of principle and disagreement! Ironically, Adams died on the 4th of July in 1826. The very day he despised in his adult life.
(For the record, Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, also died on the 4th of July.)
WAS A WOMAN EVER RECORDED AS ONE OF THE SIGNERS OF THE “DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE”? A. Yes. Believe it or not! B. No. Of course not!
If this is true in any way, then all the names on the Declaration of Independence were NOT all men, as is officially recorded in our historical records, and taught in all our seats of learning. And yet, unbelievably, the correct answer is “A” for true!
Technically speaking, a woman’s signature appears on some 1777 copies of the Declaration of Independence, in printed copies officially recognized by Congress in early America! Although she was not an official
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signer, Mary Katherine Goddard (1738-1816) – who was formally commissioned and appointed by Congress to print official copies of the historic document – she, nevertheless, added her name below the original signers, which went uncorrected by Congress! It happened in January of 1777, when Congress officially recognized and appointed her to print authorized copies of our Declaration of Independence. Goddard was an early American
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publisher of the Baltimore Post Office from 1775-1789 and was the (second printer) to print copies of the Declaration of Independence.
Although she was the second printer to print the document, her Declaration of Independence copy was the (very first) to list the names of the signatories. With her publication, the public learned for the first time who signed the Declaration. Although it is not clear why she
