To get us ready for tomorrow, I thought it appropriate to send you to the HufPost’s Four Thoughts for the Fourth. This short article points out what the day actually signifies, how our people have changed since 1776, how the 4th became a real holiday, and what the [blank] fireworks has to do with it! I found it interesting and hope you do, too.
Happy Independence Day!
To get us ready for tomorrow, I thought it appropriate to send you to the HufPost’s Four Thoughts for the Fourth. This short article points out what the day actually signifies, how our people have changed since 1776, how the 4th became a real holiday, and what the [blank] fireworks has to do with it! I found it interesting and hope you do, too.
Happy Independence Day!
I give in. Too much on the news this morning about it, so I’ll give in and wish you a happy Star Wars Day–May the 4th be with you.
(I admit, it does appeal to my warped love of puns.)
Some people have accused me of being un-American, and only partly in jest. I don’t mean to be; I really do love my country. But I think that celebrating its birthday with fireworks demeans it. The fire display depicts “bombs bursting in air” and other warfare, yet I like to think of America as a peaceful nation. The explosives create air pollution, and the casings, gunpowder, and other chemicals are not good for our American soil and water. Also, the cost is obscene. For example, North Carolina’s Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune cancelled theirs, in this era of tight budgets and sequestration, because it would cost around $25,000 PLUS another $75,000 for other expenses, like security, food, and staff overtime to host a mere 20,000 people.
OK, so call me the Grinch Who Would Steal Independence Day. I just feel that America is better than that.