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From YouTube: 245th Independence Day Celebrations
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Mayor Janey joins in with Colonel (R) Lee Fife and other community leaders in celebration of our nation's 245th Independence Day. The festivites include a parade which kicks of at City Hall, stopping at the Old Granary Burial Grounds and concluding at the Old State House for the traditional reading of the Declaration of Independence.
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We
hold
these
truths
to
be
self-evident
that
all
men
are
created
equal,
that
they
are
endowed
by
their
creator
with
certain
unalienable
rights
that,
among
these
are
life
liberty
in
the
pursuit
of
happiness.
Ladies
and
gentlemen,
welcome
to
the
welcome
to
boston
as
we
celebrate
the
245th
anniversary
of
the
signing
of
the
declaration
of
independence.
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Whiteside
captain
emelic
commanding
of
the
ancient
novel
artillery
company,
kindly
have
your
agent
command
sergeant.
Major
ramos
rivera
call
the
parade
to
attention
and
present
arms
for
the
singing
of
the
national
anthem
by
dana
whiteside,
accompanied
by
the
zaba
military
band,
followed
by
the
pledge
of.
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To
introduce
a
20-year
retired
navy
veteran
in
the
city
of
boston's
veterans
services,
commissioner,
to
lead
us
in
the
pledge
of
allegiance.
Commissioner
robert
santiago
accompanying
commissioner
santi,
our
company
and
commissioner
santiago
is
dennis
pimentel.
Commissioner,
chairman
uss
massachusetts,
commissioning
committee
and
sailors
chief,
yeoman,
reshi,
chapter
chappa,
machinist,
mate,
nuclear
second
class,
nicholas
silva
electrician's,
mate
nuclear
second
class
donovan,
london,
culinary
specialist,
seaman,
michael
pakinis,
commissioner,.
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Commissioner,
it
is
now
my
distinct
privilege
to
introduce
the
mayor
of
the
city
of
boston.
Kim
janey
is
the
55th
mayor
of
boston.
Mayor
janie
is
the
leading
bar
is,
is
leading
boston
through
the
covert
19
pandemic,
with
a
city-wide
agenda
for
recovery,
reopening
and
renewal
a
proud
4th
generation.
Roxbury
resident
mayor
janie
comes
from
a
long
line
of
educators.
Entrepreneurs,
artists
advocates
mr
janie.
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Good
morning
good
morning,
I
want
to
thank
colonel
fife
for
that
introduction
and
for
all
he
has
done
and
for
his
service
to
our
country.
I
want
to
thank
dana
whiteside
for
that
lovely
rendition
of
our
national
anthem.
Thank
you
so
much.
I
want
to
thank
commissioner
robert
santiago
for
your
service.
Certainly,
I
want
to
acknowledge
general
driscoll.
I
want
to
acknowledge
the
electeds
that
are
here
my
good
friends,
councillor
flynn
and
councillor
wu,
who
have
joined
us,
I'm
old
enough
to
remember
the
bicentennial
45
years
ago.
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I
also
remember
that
fall
that
I
would
go
off
to
school
to
middle
school,
as
I
was
bus
during
court-ordered,
desegregation
and
standing
here.
45
years
later,
as
the
55th
mayor
representing
how
far
our
city
has
come,
is
truly
amazing,
I'm
so
excited
to
celebrate
our
nation's
birthday.
Personally,
I
love
birthdays.
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E
B
An
action
of
the
second
continental
congress
july
4
1776
the
unanimous
declaration
of
the
13
united
states
of
america
when,
in
the
course
of
human
events,
it
becomes
necessary
for
one
people
to
dissolve
the
political
bands
which
have
connected
them
with
another
and
to
assume
amongst
the
powers
of
the
earth.
The
separate
and
equal
station
to
which
the
na,
which
the
laws
of
nature
and
of
nature's
god
entitled
them.
A
decent
respect
to
the
opinions
of
mankind
requires
that
they
should
declare
the
causes
which
impel
them
to
the
separation.
B
B
The
history
of
the
present
king
of
great
britain
is
a
history
of
repeated
injuries
and
interpretations
all
having
a
direct
object.
The
establishment
of
absolute
tyranny
over
these
states
to
prove
this.
Let
facts
be
submitted
to
a
candid
world.
He
has
refused
his
ascent
to
to
laws
the
most
wholesome
and
necessary
for
the
public
good.
B
He
has
refused
to
pass
other
laws
for
the
accommodation
of
large
districts
of
people
unless
those
people
would
relinquish
the
right
of
representation
in
the
legislature,
a
right
inestimable
to
them,
informable
to
tyrants.
Only
he
has
called
together
legislative
bodies
at
places
unusual,
uncomfortable
and
distant
from
the
depository
of
their
public
records
for
the
sole
purpose
of
fatiguing
them
into
compliance
with
his
measures.
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B
B
B
B
B
Nor
have
we
been
wanting
in
attentions
to
our
british
brethren.
We
have
warned
them
from
time
to
time
of
attempts
by
their
legislature
to
extend
in
unwarrantable
jurisdiction
over
us.
We
have
reminded
them
of
the
circumstances
of
our
immigration
and
settlement.
Here
we
have
appealed
to
their
native
justice
and
magnaminity,
and
we
have
conjured
them
by
the
ties
of
our
common
kindred
to
disavow
these
interpretations,
which
would
inevitably
interrupt
our
connections
and
correspondence.
B
They
have
full
power
to
levy
war,
conclude
peace,
contract
alliance,
establish
commerce
and
do
all
other
acts
and
things
which
independent
states
may
of
right
do
and
for
the
support
of
this
declaration
with
a
firm
reliance
on
the
protection
of
divine
province.
We
mutually
pledge
to
each
other,
our
lives,
our
fortunes
and
our
sacred
honor.