[mosesdapoet]

Why is it the focus has always been on the date of the Declaration of Independence. Not when we were actually officially recognized as an independent nation An officially created country seven years later I believe.Done at the Paris Accord on a day and month that ironically centuries later was nearly the same as when WWII officially ended on the Battleship Missouri, Yet both dates occurred on September 2bd remain unobserved.

[DoodleBob]

At the risk of sounding like an arrogant American, I believe we celebrate our Independence on July 4 because that is the day WE broke free. We don't celebrate our independence on the day some external sovereign chose to recognize the reality of what we'd done. To be fair, setting an exact date is a bit difficult due to the logistics of getting all the signatures. Indeed, John Adams recommended that date be July 2, but again the date is based on when WE established our independence, not somebody else.

“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America,” Adams wrote. “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival…It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”