Independence Day

***Note: This post was originally submitted on Tuesday, July 3, but was not accepted by Blogspot. As I have just figured this out, I apologize for the late post.

Thank you,
Foy Lyndström



Hello,
Tomorrow will be the Fourth of July, the day that celebrates the separation of our nation from England. For most of us, July 4, 1776 seems like it was ages ago. Amazingly enough, it was only 231 years. It is inspiring to think what America has become, and how it has changed in such a short time.

Think of the changes in medicine since then: it has been reinvented! During the Civil War, a bullet in the leg meant amputation. Not so now; we can usually save it. Vaccines are making illnesses such as polio and smallpox a thing of the past in modern countries. We are even able to replace someone's heart!

Militarily wise, we have gone from muskets to machine guns. The realm of science has changed dramatically itself. Our culture's sense of morals has changed as well, as it is leaving religion in the dust. Textbooks made even in the early 1900's show that Christianity was the accepted norm of the day.

This is just scratching the surface of what has changed throughout America. Tomorrow, as you sit down and eat your hot dogs, hamburgers, and watermelon, I urge you to consider what our country has gone through, and what has happened in and throughout it since it's conception.

Foy Lyndström