United States military members of the Stabilization Force (SFOR) celebrate the 4th of July with an American style family picnic at the Ilidza Compound. The American also invited the other members of SFOR to partake in the food, fun and other festivities in the tent filled compound
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD
Base: Sarajevo
Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)
Scene Camera Operator: Phcpo Gelnn Downie
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
The legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain in 1776 occurred on July 2, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence declaring the United States independent from Great Britain's. After voting for independence, Congress voted for Declaration of Independence, a statement explaining this decision, which had been prepared by a Committee of Five, with Thomas Jefferson as its principal author and approved it two days later on July 4. Most historians, however, have concluded that the Declaration was signed nearly a month after its adoption, on August 2, 1776, and not on July 4 as is commonly believed. Since that, Americans celebrate independence on July 4, the date shown on the much-publicized Declaration of Independence, rather than on July 2, the date the resolution of independence was approved in a closed session of Congress.