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Declaration of Independence: Nez Danguilan

Read by Nez Danguilan: "Please join me today, the 4th of July, for the annual reading of the Declaration of Independence on Anchorage's Park Strip." Ebenezer (Nez) Danguilan and his wife, Juliette Arce Danguilan, launched Fil-Am Showtime, the longest-running Asian community TV program in Anchorage, in 1994. Nez lost his beloved wife to breast cancer in 2007, but Nez (retired from the Army Corps of Engineers) continues her legacy.

From the Declaration of Independence:

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. -- And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."  



Comments
Their Lives, Fortunes and sacred Honor. It was an oath that neither the signers nor the Brisish took lightly:
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/read.FoundersFates...
# Posted By Larry | 7/4/08 12:37 PM