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Throwback Thursday: Random Thoughts About How We Got Here

Back in the early decades of “Fifteen Days to Flatten the Curve” I took advantage of a 90-day free trial on Ancestry.com.

We hold these truths…

On this day in 1776, the Lee Resolution proposed by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia was passed by the Second Continental Congress and resolved that the Thirteen American Colonies were “free and independent states” and no longer subjects of the British Empire. The formal resolution, The Declaration of Independence was officially announced two days later …

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