Happy Birthday, Citizen
Jul 4, 2018 09:50:04 #
In the early days of the Republic on the Fourth of July people would greet each other with the phrase "Happy Birthday, Citizen". I think it's a fine practice and have taken to doing the same for some years.
Jul 4, 2018 10:50:50 #
Chocura750 wrote:
In the early days of the Republic on the Fourth of July people would greet each other with the phrase "Happy Birthday, Citizen". I think it's a fine practice and have taken to doing the same for some years.
Happy Birthday Citizen.I am one of the lucky ones to have celebrated the Bicentennial in NYC 1976.Something today's Democrat destroyed younger generations won't ever live to see,mainly due to selfdestruction/suicide of America
Jul 4, 2018 11:14:24 #
I don't think the younger generations have been destroyed, at least the ones I know. I think they are great people. When 2026 rolls around the younger generations will show up. Let's hope the planet is still here.
Jul 4, 2018 11:15:18 #
Babsan wrote:
Happy Birthday Citizen.I am one of the lucky ones to have celebrated the Bicentennial in NYC 1976.Something today's Democrat destroyed younger generations won't ever live to see,mainly due to selfdestruction/suicide of America
I guess you do get it. Thank you!
Jul 4, 2018 11:17:10 #
I believe the French started that “citizen” thing after their very bloody revolution which bore little resemblance to our Revolution against King George.
Jul 4, 2018 11:53:54 #
You don't like people saying "Happy Birthday, Citizen" since you think the French started it. If they did, I don't have a problem with that. The early American citizens didn't seem to either.
Jul 4, 2018 12:08:47 #
Carol Kelly wrote:
I believe the French started that “citizen” thing after their very bloody revolution which bore little resemblance to our Revolution against King George.
Actually the idea of "citizen" as a free person of a sovereign state began with the Greeks and Romans. Critical to that definition in antiquity was the idea of being an active participant in one's own governance. That part of the idea seems to be on the wane these days.
Jul 4, 2018 13:05:32 #
There seems to be plenty of participation left. I'm not sure these times aren't as people involved as in the past. Look at women suffrage events, anti-s***ery gatherings, labor rights protests, Vietnam war protests and civil rights marches. I'm sure a little research into American history will turn up many more. I hope it never ends. This talk of a second civil war is silly. During the early nineteen hundreds there were hundreds of bombings and no civil war.
Jul 4, 2018 13:48:07 #
Chocura750 wrote:
You don't like people saying "Happy Birthday, Citizen" since you think the French started it. If they did, I don't have a problem with that. The early American citizens didn't seem to either.
If you’re talking to me, I didn’t say I didn’t like it. Don’t put words in my mouth.
Jul 4, 2018 13:49:32 #
PaulPisces wrote:
Actually the idea of "citizen" as a free person of a sovereign state began with the Greeks and Romans. Critical to that definition in antiquity was the idea of being an active participant in one's own governance. That part of the idea seems to be on the wane these days.
Thank you for an intelligent response.
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