Happy Birthday America! You're 234 years young...

I live in Philadelphia and well the 4th of July is especially special for us since we are the city which gave birth to a wonderful democracy.

Anyway just to keep focus here, this is how we told Great Britain to "go eff yourself" in the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence:

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 among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Wasn't that poetic?

Well to keep the party going, enjoy Jimi Hendrix play his rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner:

Bonus: Whitney Houston singing the National Anthem at Superbowl XXV in 1991 (she starts singing at 1min):