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THE MAN WHO SAVED JULY 4THCAESER RODNEY

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CAESER RODNEYTHE MAN WHO SAVED JULY 4

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When Caesar Rodney was 17 years old,

his father died and he was placed under

the guardianship Nicholas Ridgely, the

Clerk of the Peace for Kent County, thus

beginning Rodney’s interest in politics.

Born on his father’s farm in Dover DE,

Rodney never had a formal education. This

did not stop him from delving into the

riotous political world of the mid-1700’s.

Rodney was commissioned by the royal

government to serve as High Sheriff of

Kent County at the age of 22. Success

in this role led to additional duties —

received added duties including Registrar

of Wills, Clerk of Orphan’s Court, Recorder

of Deeds, and Justice of Peace. As his

title grew, so did his notoriety. As talk of

rebellion grew, Rodney was asked to join

the patriotic delegation composing the

Stamp Act and became the head of the

Delaware Committee of Correspondence.

Rodney was then elected to the Continental

Congress from 1774 until 1776. Though

he was home in Delaware on a military

mission when the vote on the Declaration

of Independence began, he heard that his

two Delaware cohorts were deadlocked—

one for and one against. Rodney then

made history: he dramatically rode eighty

miles through treacherous thunderstorms

to arrive at the meeting on July 2 right in

time for the final vote. His vote to pass

document was crucial.

A poem recounts the tale:

Answered Rodney then; “I will ride with

speed; It is Liberty's stress; it is Freedom’s

need.” “When stands it?” “To-night.”

“Not a moment to spare, But ride like

the wind from Delaware.” — Anonymous

Rodney remained instrumental in the

movement for independence after his ride.

Elected as Governor of Delaware, he sent

troops, money, and supplies to the Con-

tinental Government. His health declined

rapidly, and he died in his home in 1784.

In 1999, Delaware engraved Rodney’s

famous ride onto their state Quarter.

You’ve surely heard of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. But did youknow that anotherman—CaeserRodney ofDelaware—hadanequallyimportant all-night ride to save the Declaration of Independence?

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THEVIETNAMVETERANSMEMORIAL

President Jimmy Carter signed the legislationthat allocated the space for the memorial inthe Constitution Gardens near the LincolnMemorial on July 1, 1980, and groundbreak-ing began shortly thereafter. The memorialwas paid for completely by 275,000 privatecontributions from individual Americans.

The main criteria for the memorial was thatit be a place that was reflective and contem-plative in character, able to harmonize withthe surroundings, contain the names of thosewho died or missing, and make absolutely nopolitical statement about the war. The VietnamVeterans Memorial Fund chose Maya Lin’sdesign out of about 14,000 entries. Lin wasa Yale undergraduate student who receiveda B on the project; however the judges unan-imously chose her piece.

The wall stands 10 feet tall and 250 feet long.It has 58,267 names of dead and missingsoldiers arranged chronologically accordingto the date of casualty or the date they werereported missing. Each name on the wall isdenoted with a symbol of their status: diamondsmean that their death was confirmed whereasthe cross indicates that they are missing orhave prisoner status.

Some veterans found the wall to be too abstract,so a representational statue of three service-men was added to the memorial in 1984. Thethree servicemen statue is modeled from com-posites of several diverse soldiers back fromwar. An Army nurse, Diane Evans, campaignedfor the representation and remembrance of thethousands of women who served in Vietnam.A statue of three uniform women with awounded soldier was later added to the site.

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The “Wall” as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is often referred tois not a war memorial so much as a tribute to those who served,both living and dead. It is considered one of the most successfulmonuments of its kind in the world.

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AMERICA’SNATIONAL PARKS

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John Muir was instrumental in helping to estab-lish Yosemite as a national park. Muir is soclosely associated with Yosemite park — afterall, he helped draw up its proposed boundariesin 1889, wrote the magazine articles that galva-nized public opinion and led to its creation in1890, and co-founded the Sierra Club in 1892to protect it. Later, he befriended PresidentTeddy Roosevelt, hosted him for a famouscamping trip deep into Yosemite, and convincedRoosevelt to add the part to the newly devel-oping national parks system.

Today, Yosemite acts as a researchers dreamand an adventurers ideal. The park supports over400 species of wildlife including vertebrates,mammals, reptiles, and birds. The biodiversityis attributed to the varying habitats within thepark. With 1,169 square miles or about the sizeof Rhode Island, the rich habitats range fromconifer forests to expanses of alpine rock tothick foothill chaparral. Yosemite also housesthree groves of over 500 individual giant sequoiatrees, some estimated to be 1,800 years old.There are also several large waterfalls in Yosemite,but the biggest and most popular is YosemiteFalls, the tallest waterfall in North Americastanding at 2,425 feet. It is the seventh tallestwaterfall in the world.

There are 800 miles of trail within the park forhikers and backpackers to frolic along. The tallestpeak in the park is Mt. Lyell with an elevationof 13,114 feet. For those not willing to campon the ground, there are eight lodges dispersedthrough the park. Last year almost 3.9 milliontourists visited the park.

Before the Europeans arrived, the Ahwahneechee tribe recognized Yosemitefor its beauty and resources. In themid-1800’s Europeans started to travelto the valley to gaze at its greatness. In 1851, theMariposa Battalion of theU.S. Army removed the native American tribe from the valley, and the landbegan to be mined for minerals. The destruction of this glorious placesparked the conservation movement in the 1890’s.

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THE FIRST LADY OF NASCARThe “Good ol’ Gal” remembers her racing days fondly. Louise Smithonce said of her career: “I enjoyed every minute of it.” When noone thought it was possible for a woman to race in NASCAR, thesouthern belle from Greenville SC took on anything that hadwheels. By the time she retired, she had 38 victories to her name.

It all started in the 1940’s, when the

racing promoter Bill France was looking

for women to spice up attendance at

an early event in NASCAR’s history. He

got word that Louise Smith, a Greenville

local, was well-known for speeding around

the city and often outrunning the cops.

France recruited her for the race and she

finished third. So inexperienced was she,

Smith did not know what the checkered

flag meant, she kept going after winning

until someone threw out a red flag onto

the course.

In 1946, Smith borrowed her husband,

Noah’s, car against his wishes. He was

notoriously against her career in racing.

She drove down to Daytona to watch the

races, and ended up entering them her-

self. She wrecked the new car and was

discovered by her angry husband because

the newspapers splashed the crash on the

front page of the Greenville paper before

she had returned home. This was the

first of many crashes: in one race, she

flipped her car and earned herself 48

stitches and four pins in her knee.

Smith raced on from 1949 until 1965

making friends and admirers in anything

from midgets to modifieds to sportsmans.

She made a brief return in 1971 to spon-

sor cars for numerous drivers on the way

up. In 1999, Smith was inducted into the

International Motorsports Hall of Fame

in Talledaga AL. Louise Smith died in

April 2006 of cancer at the age of 89.

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Born in St. Joseph MO on November 4,

1916, Cronkite attended school in Houston

TX. He attended the University of Texas at

Austin and worked at the school newspaper.

Dropping out during junior year, Cronkite

began as a radio announcer for several

stations in Oklahoma City, OK. He then took

a job with the United Press International

in 1937, and became one of the best known

American reporters of World War II. He was

even chosen by the U.S. Army to accompany

bombing raids over Germany in B-17s.

The dean of newsmen, Edward R. Murrow,

had been watching the young journalist

evolve, and when Cronkite returned from

war he was asked to join the CBS affiliate

in Washington D.C. On the evening of April

16, 1962, Cronkite succeeded Douglas

Edwards as the CBS Evening News anchor-

man. He lived the anchor job.

Cronkite had remarkable influence in world

affairs. President Lyndon Johnson once

said in terms of support for the Vietnam

War, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost America.”

Years later, he interviewed the Egyptian

President Anwar El-Sadat in 1977, who

expressed interest in going to Jerusalem

to meet face-to-face with Prime Minister

Menachem Begin. Begin immediately in-

vited Sadat to Jerusalem for talks, which

eventually led to the Camp David Accords

and the Israeli-Egyptian Treaty. Cronkite

loved the space program, spending 27 of

the 30 of the Apollo XI space mission on

air. He once shouted “Go Baby, Go!” in

his boyish excitement.

Cronkite retired in 1981 to make room for

the new anchorman: Dan Rather. In retire-

ment, he worked on a few projects and

specials for CBS. He passed away in 2009

at age 92 after suffering from a long illness.

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During his long career, Walter Cronkite earned the sobriquet as the “mosttrusted man in America.” He worked for CBS for 31 years and reported oneverymajor news event from1950 until 1981. His specials on the VietnamWar,Apollo XI, and JFK earned him near legendary status amongst his audience.And as the first journalist on air to report onPresidentKennedy’s assassination,he broke new ground by discarding the usual journalist objectivity to shedtears over Kennedy’s death.

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“You have to love a nation that celebratesits independence every July 4, not with aparade of guns, tanks, and soldiers whofile by the White House in a show ofstrength and muscle, but with familypicnics where kids throw Frisbees, thepotato salad gets iffy, and the flies diefrom happiness. You may think you haveovereaten, but it is patriotism.”

—ERMA BOMBECKAUTHOR, COLUMNIST, HUMORIST SYNDICATED

IN 900 NEWSPAPERS THROUGH THE 1990S

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1957.Althea Gibson won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon. She was thefirst African-American to win a tennis championship at the historic court.Gibson was born in South Carolina and grew up in Harlem.

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