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No worries. We celebrate Independence Day soon.
And we're young, only 239 years.
Cheers!
Today, 2 July, 1776, is the day the joint resolution (the Lee Resolution) of the Second Continental Congress ...
Resolved,
That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and
independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British
Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
The more formal 'up yours, King George' came two days later, with the
Declaration of Independence being approved. IIRC, it wasn't signed by all until early August.
They didn't have the internet in those days, nor fax machines, etc.