Smarther News Ep.6- Independence Day

SmartHERNews

Jenna Lee

Education, News

5 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Happy July 4th! Did you know the American Revolutionary war lasted 7 years?….7 years....

And by a simple twist of fate or luck or divine intervention…America didnt lose…but we had a few very near misses of almost losing it all. And that’s why the story of Washington’s Crossing marks a pivotal moment in all of our fates. Because it changed the momentum of the war.

Listen to the story as told by Clay Craighead, marvelous historian, at Washington Crossing State Park. I had to got there in person. I had to stand on the ground. In a day, when electronic records can vanish, it’s important to stand where history happened. We recorded this interview in Clay’s office, where he’s worked for 30 years. You’ll hear a little bit of the working office in the background - I apologize for that...but its sitting in someone’s office, where they’re comfortable, that you get the most passion and you’ll hear that in Clay’s voice.… There’s a moment in our conversation where he mentions bloody footprints in the snow…an image I’ll never forget, especially this July 4th…as we celebrate the land of the free and the home…of the brave.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, happy 4th of July. Hope you're having a great time with your friends and family and a very special happy anniversary to my husband. We got married July 4th weekend 2011 and I think back to then. I had no idea. I'd be living down the road from where we got married right outside of Austin, Texas.
0:23.2	It's funny, the twists and turns of life, isn't it?
0:27.5	Just the other day, I was in a local shop.
0:29.6	I love this cute little store, and I was killing some time because I got kicked out of the coffee shop across the street
0:34.2	because of summer hours.
0:36.0	It closes earlier than I thought so by default I went
0:39.4	into the store simply you know for research purposes and I walked out with a few new items including
0:45.2	two very cool wooden signs and these signs have a driftwood color frame and this beige sort of weathered
0:53.1	background and one square reads in very clear
0:56.8	typewriter font, land of the free. And the other square reads, Home of the Brave. And when I saw
1:03.9	them, I had to have them. I just love seeing those two sentences in isolation. Land of the
1:09.8	free. Home of the free,
1:12.2	home of the brave.
1:15.8	And I read those sentences and think, yeah, that's right.
1:17.1	That's a fact.
1:19.4	That's a fact if there ever was one.
1:23.4	But it's interesting to think about how neither expression really existed for some of the most important people who made that fact a reality.
1:28.9	The Star-Spangled Banner that has those lyrics didn't exist until the war of 1812, years and years after the end of the
1:36.6	Revolutionary War. And of course, we celebrate America's Independence on July 4th and what we did
1:41.1	during the revolution. And it made me think back on something I heard
1:44.6	the famous historian David McCullough talk about. And that's the importance of perspective,
1:50.1	of remembering the perspective of the individuals at the time and remembering what they experienced,
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