{"id":32984,"date":"2019-07-04T15:31:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T14:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=32984"},"modified":"2019-07-04T15:31:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T14:31:34","slug":"4th-of-july-us-independence-and-a-show-of-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/4th-of-july-us-independence-and-a-show-of-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"4th of July: US Independence, And A \u2018Show Of A Lifetime\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-right \">\n<div class=\"ads_code\">Carnivals, fireworks picnics and concerts are common in the US, in addition to various other public events celebrating the history and traditions of the country.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">But this year there will be a change. Here\u2019s a closer look at the holiday and its origin:<\/p>\n<h2>1) Why the 4th of July?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, two days after a vote on whether to separate from the United Kingdom.<\/li>\n<li>The declaration drafted by Thomas Jefferson declared that the US was no longer subjected to the British Monarch and that the existing 13 colonies were united, free and independent states.<\/li>\n<li>For Americans, this date marks the birth of the United States of America.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u2018Show of a lifetime\u2019<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This year, with tanks in the heart of Washington, fighter jets screaming overhead, and a speech by Donald Trump at\u00a0the Lincoln Memorial, the president is\u00a0promising the \u201cshow of a lifetime\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"_mce_tagged_br\">For decades, US presidents have kept a low profile during Washington\u2019s annual celebration which typically draws hundreds of thousands of people to Washington\u2019s monument-lined National Mall for a nonpartisan concert and fireworks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>But this year, at around 6:30pm (22:30 GMT), Trump will take to the hallowed steps of the Lincoln Memorial for an unprecedented \u201cSalute to America\u201d event that will include a televised address, military hardware and a giant fireworks display. The nation\u2019s top military brass will have a front row seat.<\/li>\n<li>After his speech, there will be a 21-gun salute and a flyover by the plane that is known as Air Force One, according to CNN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>At 8pm (00:00 GMT) a concert is expected, while fireworks will be launched an hour later in West Potomak Park. Protests against the hardware display are expected at 7:30pm (23:30pm GMT)<\/li>\n<li>Airspace around Washington DC will close twice. In normal years it does not close at all. The closures are expected to impact nearly 100 scheduled flights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1099651121088466946\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"3\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1099651121088466946\" data-tweet-id=\"1099651121088466946\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A display of power and money?<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>This year, Democrats in Congress have questioned whether the president will turn a nonpartisan patriotic celebration into a taxpayer-funded campaign rally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Republican political groups confirmed that they had been given prime tickets for Trump\u2019s speech.<\/li>\n<li>Trump\u2019s \u201cego is so large that he\u2019s holding this Fourth of July campaign rally in a desperate cry for attention, and everyone knows it,\u201d Senator Chuck Schumer wrote on Twitter.<\/li>\n<li>Many are up in arms about what all this is going to cost. The White House has so far refused to put a number on it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Possible inspiration in France<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The statue honouring civil war president Abraham Lincoln is famous as the location for Martin Luther King Jr\u2019s epic 1963 \u201cI have a dream\u201d speech.<\/li>\n<li>But Trump\u2019s inspiration appears to be taken less from that civil rights cry than a Bastille Day military parade he attended in 2017 as a guest of French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/li>\n<li>So impressed was Trump that he came up with the idea of putting on a major extravaganza for Veteran\u2019s Day, which is marked on November 11. But an outcry over the almost $100m price tag meant it had to be scrapped.<\/li>\n<li>Now he\u2019ll get a scaled-back version. As he prepared for the big day Trump downplayed the issue of cost.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe cost of our great Salute to America tomorrow will be very little compared to what it is worth,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe own the planes, we have the pilots, the airport is right next door (Andrews), all we need is the fuel. We own the tanks and all. Fireworks are donated by two of the greats. Nice!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0Responses<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Counter-protesters plan to bring their own kind of political fireworks to the National Mall, the grassy park running three kilometers from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol.<\/li>\n<li>Leftist organisation Code Pink is deploying its \u201cBaby Trump\u201d blimp, a large inflated doll depicting the president in nappies.<\/li>\n<li>But the National Park Service denied permission to fill the inflatable with helium, so the depiction of a cranky, infantile Trump will stay on the ground.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carnivals, fireworks picnics and concerts are common in the US, in addition to various other public events celebrating the history and traditions of the country.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1593,17,624],"tags":[1367],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-32984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-metro","category-news","category-politics","tag-us"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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