Declaring Independence from Britian was certainly one of those classic cases of a somebody sticking their neck out and just “going for it”, despite whatever doubts or fears they might have had about the consequences.   In difficult decisions that we all have to make in life that are fairly balanced in the pro/con columns and there’s no clear path towards a solution, there’s always a point at which you, to put it the way my grandmother would, “Shit or get off the pot”.

These photos go out to all those who have ever stuck their neck out and gone for the gold, and to those that did exactly that 233 years ago so we could have a place of our own, steeped in the freedoms and liberties we enjoy.