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Podcast: The Alan Sanders Show
Episode: Happy Independence Day 2023
Description: Today I decided to do a special show on the meaning of this Independence Day holiday here in the United States of America. So many of us know about the Declaration of Independence and we know about the Revolutionary War, but the last few generations of Americans seem to know less and less about basic American civics. To start, I go into a brief timeline of how the 13 colonies found themselves wanting to declare independence from the tyranny of King George III. Though they voted on the document on July 2, 1776, it wasn’t formally adopted until July 4, 1776. In...