For Americans there is no other holiday quite like the Fourth of July. It is after all, the holiday that marks the birth of our great nation.
Absent the sorrow of Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day and free of the crass commercialism that increasingly obscures the meaning of the Christmas holiday, the Fourth of July is a time to party – responsibly of course.
We hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday weekend. Yet, while we are savoring this occasion, we also recommend remembering why this is such a holiday.
The Fourth of July exists as it does because a group of dreamers and rabble rousers rose up against the yoke of tyranny, risking all they had on the principle that all men were created equal; born with inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Two hundred thirty-five years later, we continue to debate exactly what constitutes liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but because of those who came before us, it’s a debate we are free to have.
