Happy 243rd Birthday, America!

Celebrating the 4th of July is truly an amazing experience as an American, whether as a kid or an adult. Being able to live in the greatest country in the history of the world, one that, according to the Preamble to the Constitution, challenges its citizens “to form a more perfect Union.”

If we work and aspire to make it so, then tomorrow will be better than today.

Today is (aside from season 3 of ‘Stranger Things’ dropping on Netflix with its July 4th-themed premiere set in 1985), the perfect occasion to remember how it all started for the United States of America just before it was the United State of America.

Let’s travel back in time to this country’s inspired declaration.

God Bless the United States of America.