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US Navy Admiral Leighton Smith, Implementation Forces (IFOR) Commander, is photographed as he stands before an American flag during US Independence day celebrations at the Allied Rapid Reaction Command (ARRC) Headquarters, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR

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US Navy Admiral Leighton Smith, Implementation Forces (IFOR) Commander, is photographed as he stands before an American flag during US Independence day celebrations at the Allied Rapid Reaction Command (ARRC) Headquarters, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR

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Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR

Base: Sarajevo

Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Lance Cheung, USAF

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.

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04/07/1996
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