There’s a little known and quite amazing fact about the Fourth of July.
Three of our first five Presidents died on the Fourth of July.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two members of the Committee of Five that wrote the Declaration of Independence, died on the same day, July 4, 1826, fifty years to the day after the Declaration was passed.
Daniel Webster wrote a famous eulogy for Adams and Jefferson that described the timing of their deaths as proof that God has blessed America.
James Monroe died on July 4, 1831, exactly five years later.
For more details, go to Substack and search for “It’s the Bicentennial of the most numinous Fourth of July”. Keep the quotation marks when you cut and paste the title of the article.
Back in the day I appeared as the innkeeper in a production of “Annie Get Your Gun” in Grand Island, Neb. In one scene the young Annie Oakley came to me with a bird for sale, and bragged that she shot it in the head so there was no shot in the meat.
Come dress rehearsal the prop manager handed a real plucked bird to the teenage actress. She recoiled. “What is *that?”* We had to explain to her it was what her Mom started with to make fried chicken.
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There’s a little known and quite amazing fact about the Fourth of July.
Three of our first five Presidents died on the Fourth of July.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two members of the Committee of Five that wrote the Declaration of Independence, died on the same day, July 4, 1826, fifty years to the day after the Declaration was passed.
Daniel Webster wrote a famous eulogy for Adams and Jefferson that described the timing of their deaths as proof that God has blessed America.
James Monroe died on July 4, 1831, exactly five years later.
For more details, go to Substack and search for “It’s the Bicentennial of the most numinous Fourth of July”. Keep the quotation marks when you cut and paste the title of the article.
Ironically, Adams’s last words were “Jefferson still lives.” And he was wrong, because Jefferson had died just a few hours before.
Back in the day I appeared as the innkeeper in a production of “Annie Get Your Gun” in Grand Island, Neb. In one scene the young Annie Oakley came to me with a bird for sale, and bragged that she shot it in the head so there was no shot in the meat.
Come dress rehearsal the prop manager handed a real plucked bird to the teenage actress. She recoiled. “What is *that?”* We had to explain to her it was what her Mom started with to make fried chicken.