Heartlander Abroad: Kinkaid Lake, IL

Thursday, July 10, 2014

For those of us that work a regular 5-day a week job, a 3-day holiday weekend is a magical thing. It's hard to wrap your head around what it must have been like for a bunch of brave, adventurous Europeans, building a new life in a strange land while being oppressed by taxation from across the Atlantic, to rise up and fight. To proclaim that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were worth dying for, and then to prove it. Our independence is celebrated with fireworks and barbeques, but it was won with blood and bravery. So while dropping a "Benjamin" on fireworks to appease our children, a little insight on who the man was and his connection with the holiday wouldn't hurt (maybe dig out a $1, $10, and $20 as well!)

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