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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #60 on: 07/05/2010 02:35 pm »
Can anyone honestly imagine this happening today?

Lots of enthusiasm for spaceflight on that day.  A crowd estimated at 45,000 watched the landing.
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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #61 on: 07/05/2010 09:28 pm »
Can anyone honestly imagine this happening today?


That's leadership!

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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #62 on: 07/07/2010 10:41 am »
Can anyone honestly imagine this happening today?


That's leadership!

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Not likely!



Happy July 4th and have a great summer!

Cheers!
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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #63 on: 07/04/2011 09:30 am »
Can anyone honestly imagine this happening today?




I wonder if Obama would start singing as Dragon or Orion is towed out on the back of a truck today? ;)

Happy July 4 ;D

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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #64 on: 07/04/2011 10:15 am »
Happy 4th to all,,,,thanks for posting a great memory,,,I was at Ellington field here in Houston when she landed on the way to the Cape,,,what a great day that was.....

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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #65 on: 07/04/2011 11:12 am »
Happy J4. Don't forget the flagwaving ;)
« Last Edit: 07/04/2011 11:13 am by DavisSTS »

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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #66 on: 07/04/2011 11:16 am »
Heh, nice bump, as we didn't want to go over the war again, did we ;)

Happy July 4 and that STS-4 video is so epic.
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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #67 on: 07/04/2011 12:42 pm »
Happy July, 4th to all U.S. guys.

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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #68 on: 07/04/2011 01:21 pm »
I predict more rockets will be launched today in the US than on any other day of the year, as long as you account for all rockets of any mass.

Happy Independence day from those evil (now our best friends) Brits!  I guess all's well that ends well. ;)

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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #69 on: 07/04/2011 01:32 pm »
Happy July 4 to the Americans. Crazy to think we went to war with technically our own people. Turned out well in the end.

And we even sent you Simon Cowell by way of our friendship :D
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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #70 on: 07/04/2011 01:51 pm »
Independence Day Americans!

Big day off, lots of flag waving and stuff? You don't go around burning Union Jacks I take it ;D

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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #71 on: 07/04/2011 02:11 pm »
Humorous take on the Declaration of Independence if modern technology was available back then:

http://www.zdnet.com/photos/independence-day-how-did-they-survive-the-1770s/6255248

Love the email to [email protected], social media icons next to the signature, and Jefferson's twitter feed.

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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #72 on: 07/04/2011 08:16 pm »
Independence Day Americans!

Big day off, lots of flag waving and stuff? You don't go around burning Union Jacks I take it ;D

Our schools are so terrible, I'd wager a majority of our graduates don't remember which nation we won independence *from*... much less know what their flag looks like...
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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #73 on: 07/04/2011 08:36 pm »
Independence Day Americans!

Big day off, lots of flag waving and stuff? You don't go around burning Union Jacks I take it ;D

Our schools are so terrible, I'd wager a majority of our graduates don't remember which nation we won independence *from*... much less know what their flag looks like...

They teach it reasonably well in UK schools, as much as it's par for the course for the bloody history of the British Empire. It's always "we were the bad guys", so no false pretenses, before concentrating how you celebrate it with fireworks, like we do for November 5.

Certainly no animosity and I think the Queen even apologised (well she isn't allowed to apologise as monarch as she's got no political power to do so, but she noted regrets, during a visit to Georgetown I think).

The biggest problems are Hollywood movies, with the historically wobbly Mel Gibson film for this war and those crap Pirates of the Caribbean movies which make the Royal Navy look stupid, when they dominated the planet for goodness how long.

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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #74 on: 07/04/2012 02:14 am »
Just a bump to wish all my American friends a happy 4th of July.

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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #75 on: 07/04/2012 02:17 am »
may we all remember that the tea party was a protest to a tax cut.

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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #76 on: 07/04/2012 04:42 am »
Just a bump to wish all my American friends a happy 4th of July.

Thanks Robert! Just got back from a fireworks show with the family. The 4th is America's special day to get even more wrapped up in ourselves than normal, which is no small feat.

Cheers to our northern neighbors, too!

Mark S.

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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #77 on: 07/04/2012 12:43 pm »
Wow, that year went a bit fast!

Happy July 4! ;D
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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #78 on: 07/04/2012 04:24 pm »
Happy Independence Day!

Ironic that we beat the Brits, but now have to rely on one for news on our own program! :D

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Re: Happy July 4th Independence Day
« Reply #79 on: 07/04/2012 04:38 pm »
Happy Birthday America! And to many more rocket’s red glare… ;D
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