As we Americans get set to celebrate our Independence, I'd like to talk a bit ABOUT "Independence".

Here's what Merriam Webster says are the meanings:

" -- : freedom from outside control or support : the state of being independent

: the time when a country or region gains political freedom from outside control

Full Definition of INDEPENDENCE
1: the quality or state of being independent
2 archaic : competence 1 See independence defined for English language learners »

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Examples of INDEPENDENCE

She asserted her independence from her parents by getting her own apartment.
He has shown a fierce independence of spirit.
A month after independence, elections were held.

First Known Use of INDEPENDENCE
1640 --"

INDEPENDENCE....

WOW! What a powerful and FREEING word! The meaning BEHIND it is even MORE so!

Hummmm...Look at 2014...(First KNOWN use of the word being 1640) in America....

We seem to be taking the INDEPENDENCE won through so much blood, and sacrifice, for granted. We're seeming a nation now of "Expectations of our WANTS to be seen as RIGHTS."

When did this happen? WHERE will this attitude lead?

Well, you see the reality of what CAN be the end result today.

I'll not continue a long post, to make it longer by listing specific examples, BUT, I WILL say that IF you cannot see the detrimental effects of this way of thinking working its way out today...well, I guess you're a potato.

Happy INDEPENDENCE DAY My fellow AMERICANS.