Happy Final Draft Day!

(No Kermit, they are NOT drafting you into the Army!).

(No Biggles, they are not banning Draft Beer!).

(No Antrax, this blog is not about drafting players for a futbol team.)

Today is the day that Thomas Jefferson was writing multiple copies of the "FINAL DRAFT" of the "Declaration of Independence" (one to keep and one to share). They had no copy machines, he wrote them with a "quill pen" (probably a goose feather, the tip split and dipped into an inkwell).

He had to have been "burning the midnight oil" on this one (staying up late, working by the light of a whale oil lamp). He knew that when it was signed (the next day July 4, 1776) that it would take weeks for King George the 5th (3 Sir) for King George the 3rd to even know about it. (There was no Transatlantic Cable between England and America, no Radio, no Fax, no electricity. And No Jeanna no E-Mail!)

So, even though no one celebrates Tom's efforts on this day, I salute him. He stayed away from both his wife and his mistress to complete the task! (btw Thomas Jefferson and John Adams [two ex-presidents who signed the Declaration of Independence] both died on July 4, 1826 - the 50th anniversary of the signing of it [musta been a helluvah party in Wash, DC on that day]!

A Hee Haw Salute!