So soon the world forgets the words of President Thomas Whitmore:
We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
Yeah . . . big news in the Congo as I recall, endlessly lauded in East and West Papua, nobody could shut up about it in Patagonia, a cause célèbre in the Chatham Isles.
The next day, everybody forgot about the 8 year civil uprising in the British colonies that kind of paled against the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and all the other biffos of that time that went on longer and killed more people.
slyall|1 year ago
We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
defrost|1 year ago
Yeah . . . big news in the Congo as I recall, endlessly lauded in East and West Papua, nobody could shut up about it in Patagonia, a cause célèbre in the Chatham Isles.
The next day, everybody forgot about the 8 year civil uprising in the British colonies that kind of paled against the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and all the other biffos of that time that went on longer and killed more people.