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The deafening boom of the Victory Cannon cracked the sky, and shook the earth, and a long plume of white smoke rose and became one with the clouds. In the distance, the giant cannon could be seen through the mountain pass, and to look directly at it for an extended period of time would often give the citizens of Jefferson County an intense feeling of vertigo. But that is not to suggest, however, that it did not also instil a sense of pride. Pride in ones country, pride in ones government, and pride in ones self in knowing that there is no way but the American way.