HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, AMERICA HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY Refresh your and your family's memory about this American holiday. ______________________________ What actually happened on July 4th. ______________________________ How did the founders envision our Independence Day celebration? ______________________________ What is the best way to celebrate this Fourth of July long weekend? On the 4th of July , the United States observes an all-important federal holiday in honor of the Declaration of Independence. We think of July 4th as a day representing the Declaration of Independence, America’s revolutionary Charter of Freedom, and the document upon which the nation’s founding principles were established. Did you know that July 4th wasn’t the day that independence was declared. Nor the day that the Declaration was officially signed. So July 4, 1776 commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by delegates from the 13 colonies. On