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Thanks Jan it's nice that you appreciate the importance of our celebration.

Thanks Jan! We celebrated last night at Grandma’s farm. All my cousins and aunts/uncles were there including 17 kids under the age of 8. This was our first full get-together since Christmas 2019 as the whole family only gets together on the 4th and Christmas, but Grandma cancelled those last year. Lots of food, did some target shooting and lit off well over a thousand dollars in fireworks in what seemed like only a few minutes 😂


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Thanks, Jan!
We had our celebration yesterday with family and close friends. Lots of good food and drinks, rides in one of my Model T Fords, trying to catch potatoes launched from my potato cannon, Blongo Ball and Cornhole games, and we wrapped it all up with some Tesla coil music and fireworks, which were apparently so good that someone called the Police to tell them how good they were!😁

😂 😂

Sounds like a great time Mike!! 

Certainly sounds and looks like you guys had fun with family and friends 

@jkbixby
Larry, 4th. of July usually is pretty well covered here in Denmark by the press.
Not many Danes without family in the US, albeit my own connection is pretty far fetched these days.

In fact, just 30 miles south of here, the single largest official celebration of the American Indepence Day outside the USA, has been held every year since 1912.
(Besides 1940-45, since Adolf Hitler didn´t seem to approve all that much, when it came to celebrating the US during the occupation.)
These days there´s usually around 2-3000 people attending, but in the years right after WWII as many as 50000 people was participating.

Certainly sounds and looks like you guys had fun with family and friends

@jkbixby
Larry, 4th. of July usually is pretty well covered here in Denmark by the press.
Not many Danes without family in the US, albeit my own connection is pretty far fetched these days.

In fact, just 30 miles south of here, the single largest official celebration of the American Indepence Day outside the USA, has been held every year since 1912.
(Besides 1940-45, since Adolf Hitler didn´t seem to approve all that much, when it came to celebrating the US during the occupation.)
These days there´s usually around 2-3000 people attending, but in the years right after WWII as many as 50000 people was participating.

Very interesting Jan.  I learned something new today!

Thank you for an interesting thread.

The great experiment continues. 🤠