And so this happened.... In celebration of Independence Day, this appeared in the Oregon News on July 4th 1961. The Civil War started 160 years ago. The second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence starts as follows: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."![]()
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