Good morning.
In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world.
And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind…
Mankind.
That word should have new meaning for all of us today.
We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore.
We will be united in our common interests.
You get off work at 2 on Fridays? 
You also wish to assassinate the soap-dodging weedgie cube-jockey who’s printing the complete works of Proust, double-sided while some of us are trying to work? Whodathowtit?
Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom.
Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution…but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live.
To exist.
[quote=“Rocket”]Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom.
Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution…but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live.
To exist.[/quote]
No, no, it’s the sequential nature of the Gregorian calendar.
Excuse me, I’m from Eng-town, didn’t get the reference. It used to be my dad’s birthday, though. 
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’re going to live on!
We’re going to survive!
Today!
We celebrate our Independence Day!
Even more importantly … July 4th is when my cat Whopper came into my life 
He looks a little partied out here 
p.s. I KNEW you were talking about the movie INDEPENDENCE DAY when you started up the thread. I knew it !
Good flick, i recently bought it at Walmart for five bucks just to watch it again.
And who is the enemy, Rocket? Is it ISIS? Is it the North Koreans? Could it be the Belgians?
Which way should we point our . . . chopsticks? 
You mean its NOT Dr. Evil ??
[quote=“Rocket”]Today!
We celebrate our Independence Day!
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EPIC. Split into more than one posts, makes it 10x more epic.