It’s sad to say, but some Americans need to be reminded what the Fourth of July is all about.
Yes, it’s a holiday, with most Americans enjoying a day off from work. The trouble is, many Americans view Independence Day as nothing more than a day off from work.
This Fourth of July, all Americans, if possible, should celebrate the holiday in ways befitting Independence Day. As we’ve said before, give freedom a workout.
Independence Day is a time to recall that we, as Americans, have the right to peacefully assemble in our streets to voice our displeasure with government action, or inaction. It’s a good bet there are quite a few Libyans and North Koreans who would love to have that right.
Independence Day is a time to remember the American Revolution, a time when men and women willingly died to forge a nation where personal freedoms are more important than allegiance to a king and generations since 1776 have died and bled in wars to preserve those freedoms at home and around the world.
Some people, at home and abroad, would take those freedoms from us. If we don’t exercise and protect those freedoms, we make it easier for those people as they try to take them away.
We can remain a strong nation if we continue to exercise those freedoms.
Freedoms taken for granted eventually become freedoms lost.