07/05/2024
Western Skyes would like to wish all of our followers a safe and happy 4th of July! As you and your family celebrate our beloved national holiday, please take a moment and remember the reason for today. Today was a historic day when a group of ordinary men signed a document to stand up to a king and a government an ocean away. As you enjoy a BBQ with your family and lighting off a few fireworks, please remember these words that started off one of the greatest documents ever written:
When in the course human events becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Happy Independence Day from Western Skyes!
