Real reason for Fourth

But so few people think about why we have July Fourth. So few people think about the Revolutionary War, the agreement with France to recognize the United States as a real, independent country. So few think of what a slap in England's face it was when a new colony, filled with riffraff, let a world super power know it wasn't so super anymore. 

"I assume everybody knows why we celebrate it, but I'm not sure it has the same impact it used to," said Rita Blum, student in the Senior University at Cal State Long Beach. And that's okay.

Going to war against Great Britain would be the same as declaring war against a modern-day super-power like the United States.

These few, uneducated people must have been nuts. And they were. They were nuts over a concept never seen in any other land. Freedom.

The revolution was an experiment and it succeeded remarkably. Britain lost the war, fair and square. For good reason -- the French soldiers, a formidable army, were helping the colonists.   Despite the low numbers of soldiers America had on its side, most mere hunters with little to no warring experience, they were a determined bunch. That determination and the experience of the French soldiers and their firepower made for a formidable enemy.

Britain retreated, secretly thinking that the American experiment would fail and the newly formed United States would come crawling back to Mother England.

They are still waiting. America has been doing quite well since its inception and is getting economically stronger every year. 

So this July Fourth, we should have a beer for the founders of this country, remember the no-name hunters and commoners who fought so bravely and 
think of the odds against them way back then. 

Would anyone today be willing to take on the same odds?