Happy Independence Day

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

To all those in the USA, have a great one!

[KC1XF]

Thank You and I wish all the same, hope everyone has a Safe and Happy Fourth.

73,

Fred

KC1XF

[W1RC]

To all those in the USA, have a great one!

Steve et al:

Same from Vermont, the 14th state, an independent nation from 1777 until 1791.

I wonder what my call would have been had VT not joined the Union.  In fact what would have been the callsign prefixes had the North not won the Civil War and the C.S.A. were an independent nation today? 

Something to think about as we celebrate U.S. Independence.

73,

MisterMike VT1RC

[Blaine N1GTU]

wait... i am getting a message from the other side... coming through now..

"Have a happy 4th of July or be executed for treason!!! God bless Jesus and Jefferson and the US Constitution!!"

[W1UJR]

Ah, Irb, surprised that he did not expire on July 4th, that would indeed be fitting.
Speaking of Jefferson, did you know that both Jefferson and Adams died on July 4th, 1826, the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence?

My best for a Safe and Happy July 4th to all.
May Liberty yet ring and the Republic stand for another 200 years!

73 Bruce W1UJR

[W1DAN]

Hi all:

Happy July 4th to all!

Today is the day to use an American radio!

Great weather here and am enjoying the day off for once...

73,
Dan
W1DAN

[AG4YO]

Best wishes to you all for the 4th.... and the other days of the year too!

[Ed-VA3ES]

Best wishes to all my American friends.   May you all have a very Happy 4th of July!

[Bill, KD0HG]

Very good, Blaine!
Don't Tread on Me.

[W1RC]

Best wishes to all my American friends.   May you all have a very Happy 4th of July!

Actually, Ed, we're ALL Americans..............North Americans!

73,

MisterMike, W1RC/VE2XZ

Licensed on both sides of the border.

[Ed-VA3ES]

Best wishes to all my American friends.   May you all have a very Happy 4th of July!

Actually, Ed, we're ALL Americans..............North Americans!

73,

MisterMike, W1RC/VE2XZ
Licensed on both sides of the border.

Mikey, I refuse to use that awful leftist expression, "Usasians", or is it "Usaians"?  Whatever.   But, you knew what I meant!    I don't observe the 4th of July, and nothwithstanding my compatriots  cretinous anti-Americanism, my own  affection for Americans is  well known.  (But then, I grew up 58 miles from the U.S. border!)

I'm licensed on both sides of the "border" as well 
VA3ES/VE2SS

[W3RSW]

Yeah Mr.Mike, I agree. We're all Americans with really interesting, varying backgrounds.
The older and somewhat wiser I become, the more I realize how fractiously, or fractally this nation was put together. If the CSA had continued to exist would we have been on same sides in WWI ?  II?... Would the major countries on this continent have been embroiled on opposite sides of most European wars simply because of continued acrimony?  Would we have re-fought wars based on earlier hatreds and division?  Certainly not orginal thoughts... numerous alternate history fiction stories and psuedo documentaries have been published.   .... "barrels" instead of "tanks" breaking the Virginia front stalemates of 1914-18...   Can't remember the author but the stories were riveting : )

I'm sure Ed knows his Canadian history, -Queen Anne's wars, add'l French and Indian wars, Braddock's war well enough to realize that Quebec cois is way more than a wayward thought, maybe more now than ever.

So; my potential call now?

Many now still call WVa. "occupied Va."
 (note that US postal two letter conventions may not exist.)

1.) WVa in its entirety might possibly still be part of Va.
2.) Or WVa might be a least one more layer of Shenedoah counties larger along with entire southwest Va, and northern Va counties of  Fairfax, Frederick, et. al. and still occupied by Union forces a la Korea.  The three counties of WVa's eastern panhandle were in fact annexed by WVa. simply because the B&O RR ran through them, Confederate terrritory on Northern Va. on the way to Baltimore. 70 + raids during the war cost Va. three more counties.  All votes, of course, were at the point of a gun.
3.) T. S. Jackson is still on the right hand of the annointed.
4.) Surveys of just about every state contain such interesting stories...- Maryland, Lord Baltimore, -Va., Lord Fairfax... the Fairfax stone.  Md. only 3 miles wide at Hancock.  Near miss, that one.  Deleware having a 12 mile radius arc from the bell tower of the courthouse into Pa.

Ooops, I digressed. '
So All of '4' land would have it's own set of calls, perhaps even letters commerating famous CSA personages.  Would the ITU have agreed on something neat like "CS1,2,etc,XXX?  Quite a respectable southern call would be CS1TSJ. 

Sure is fun to think of the possiblilties. ... what if S. Carolina had waited a year at Ft. Sumter?  That's just for starters but then where does one start? Dread Scott Decision?... different economies? Missouri compromise...   ah, the possibilites are endless.

But Steve's "Happy Independence Day" is the Unifier.  We were all pretty much one then in the original 13 plus northwest territories.... and are now.  We've enjoyed over 200 years of pretty much uncontested, free and open borders with Canada ever since..  the Oregon spat notwithstanding.  I remember my 6th grade teacher happily stating our friendship "over 3000 miles of open, unfortified border."  The Mexican war seems to have been the result of a rambunctious, young overachieveing country, settlement pressures in Texas..  early national pride.  The problem now is mostly economic.  We're still the land of milk and honey to many in the world, especially this hemisphere, egalatarian jealousies 'n stuff notwithstanding.

 Yeah, Happy 4th of July! May we have many more.   I'm proud to be an American.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

If all you have is a hammer, everything will look like a nail.

I see nothing political or acrimonious in Rick's comments. Speculating about how this country would be different if history was different is hardly political or controversial. If you want to view them as such, that's your problem and your limitation. Get out of the political box and see the big world. It's a lot more interesting.

[WD8BIL]

It plays real well on the sax !

[W1IA]

Happy 4TH everyone! A bit late , but great to see the posts from everyone!
Hope everyone is having a great summer.

Happy 4th or "..be tried for treason"

Brent W1IA

p.s. Hi BUUUUDDDDLY!!!

[Ed KB1HVS]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G7qmtJ81-s

[kf6pqt]

omg, those people are ALL high!   

[Ed KB1HVS]

omg, those people are ALL high!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8LRqHh0g58

 A merry time had by all!

[k4kyv]

Looks like the 3878 Slopbucket Net crew did barbecue, but they got a little paranoid about bugs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev6Ds-llgBo