On July 4, 1776, the United States of America was born with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Kind of. America was actually born two days earlier, when the Second Continental Congress voted on July 2nd to legally approve a resolution of independence, but there was some fussing around to do with the wording and no one was happy enough to get a majority vote on the text until later in the week. That’s how the Declaration of Independence got signed on the 4th, and that’s how it became known as America’s birthday.
Exactly one hundred and forty-two years later, in a parallel dimension known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sarah Rogers gave birth to a boy in Brooklyn, New York and named her son Steven Grant Rogers. The boy’s father was Joseph Rogers, a soldier who would have gotten a kick out of his son being born on Independence Day had he survived to meet baby Steve, but sometimes the best jokes are the ones that go untold. Read more...
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