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Fireworks In The Rain
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Fireworks In The Rain |
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Robert Jordan Member
since 2007-02-07
Posts 392Philadelphia Pa USA 
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It’s pouring rain tonight, it doesn’t stop the Forth on the streets of Philly. It hard for the kids in the street to light their fuses, but they succeed. Nothing can stop the Forth on the streets of Philly. Where it really all began. It sounds like a muffled battlefield. It’s a great joy to be here. Thank our troops for that. Bobby |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Yes, thank our troops, for without their sacrifices, past and present...we would be without what we have. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Amen!!!! Need I say more  Ruth |
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Robert Jordan Member
since 2007-02-07
Posts 392Philadelphia Pa USA |
Magnus, Kids in America, here and everywhere, are troops in training on the Forth. Bobby [This message has been edited by Robert Jordan (07-04-2007 10:51 PM).] |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
fine (and obviously timely) 'write'! Applause!! The 'poems' I posted tonight did not (unfortunately) reference the 4th. of July; however, they were written on my exact copy of the portable 'writing desk' (original now in the Smithsonian of course) that Thomas Jefferson used in Philly to write the 'Declaration'... I also find it incredibly interesting (and perhaps somewhat 'spooky') in remembering that Jefferson and my ancestor (John Adams) both died on the same day (which was July 4th...and, exactly the 50th. 'anniversary' of the signing of the 'Declaration'!) |
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Robert Jordan Member
since 2007-02-07
Posts 392Philadelphia Pa USA |
Hoot_owl_rn, We cross posted. Thanks for the kind words. I’m pleased you enjoyed it. Bobby |
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Robert Jordan Member
since 2007-02-07
Posts 392Philadelphia Pa USA |
Secondhanddreampoet, Thanks for the good words, and for the applause. Yes, it’s quite a coincidence that they both died on the same day. As I remember reading, they never got along that well in later life, but they went together at the end--probably to harass each other in heaven. They are two of my childhood, and for that matter, adulthood heros. They were gaints. It's cool you have a copy of that desk. Bobby [This message has been edited by Robert Jordan (07-04-2007 11:54 PM).] |
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paullallady Member
since 2007-04-03
Posts 262Michigan |
this is so true!!! You cannot stop the fourth anywhere in this United States. |
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Robert Jordan Member
since 2007-02-07
Posts 392Philadelphia Pa USA |
Paullallady, The great and interesting thing about it is that setting off fireworks in Philly has been illegal for years. It doesn't mean a thing. Bobby |
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