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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
by Charles Copeland
Posted on June 29, 2010 at 6:16 PM
ROCKPORT, MA
Independence Day was always a very important day of observance to Amy. During her first year in Massachusetts (1999), when asked if she'd like to go to the reenactment of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, she actually jumped up and down like a little girl, clapping her hands and yelling, "YAYYYY!" Even in her adult years Amy could become just as excited as would a child. And that made me excited as well ... as excited, in fact, as her.
We drove to Concord, and all the while Amy became more and more happy to be a new New Englander. And once we got to the battlefield and Amy saw the reenactment in action, tears overflowing, her patriotic nature grew to mammoth proportions. Later that same year we walked the Freedom Trail in Boston, stayed overnight at a bed and breakfast in Lexington so she could have two full days to visit the sights, and spent four more days in Plymouth. Amy cried merely at the sight of the Mayflower (and that was just a reproduction of the original, so imagine how much in awe she would have been at the sight of the actual Mayflower) and Plymouth Rock. To her, these sights were what America was all about. And it made me more proud than ever to be lucky enough to call her my wife.
Independence Day became a soulful day of observance for Amy that day in 1999. She knew the importance of remembering the foundation documents that make us free. And I'm quite sure that this Independence Day will be the same for her as well as for me. The separation between us, the dimensional distance, is but an inch ... and I know she will be right there with me in Boston that day. She would wish for all of you a safe and soulful celebration of American independence.
And so do I.
Happy Independence Day!
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