It's a national holiday today here in the United States. While on my way back from Europe this week I read a book my dad gave me to read entitled 1776 by David McCullough. It's a well-written book on that year of George Washington's experience and easy to read. Americans should read this book, especially now, with this quote by one of his top generals, Nathanael Greene;
" I hope we shall be taught to copy his example and to prefer the love of liberty in this time of public danger to all the soft pleasures of domestic life and support ourselves with manly fortitude amidst all the dangers and hardships that attend a state or war."
Have a happy 4th, and please give some thought to what it really means besides a day off and a barbeque.
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