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Installing the bamboo for Climbing Slippery Palm game (palm was replaced by bamboo) This game is held yearly on Indonesian independence day.. the bamboo is smeared with oil to make people harder to climb it. On the top of it there's a big circle, various gifts such as electronics, money in envelopes, bicycle, even motorcycle hung or put on it.
This video clip shows a fountain type firework putting a fine display for the Independence Day holiday.
I hope you & yours have a wonderful and safe holiday.
For the remainder, despite the light-heartedness of the above image, I'm going to steal the words of a better man.
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
"But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggle here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
To all my Flickr friends Stateside. Enjoy your holiday weekend.
Seen at Rossnowlagh, Co Donegal. Ireland.
In the presence of a huge crowd, independence was proclaimed on June 12, 1898 between four and five in the afternoon in Cavite in this balcony of the ancestral home of General Emilio Aguinaldo some 30 kilometers South of Manila . The event saw the unfurling of the National Flag of the Philippines, made in Hong Kong by Marcela Agoncillo, Lorenza Agoncillo, and Delfina Herboza, and the performance of the Marcha Filipina Magdalo, as the Nation's National Anthem, now known as Lupang Hinirang, which was composed by Julián Felipe and played by the San Francisco de Malabon marching band.
Elvert at O'toole & Prouty Independence Day Party in Falls Church, Virginia on Sunday evening, 4 July 1993.
Taken by Steve O'toole
1993 INDEPENDENCE DAY Project
Elvert Barnes 4 JULY INDEPENDENCE DAY ongoing project at elvertbarnes.com/4July