Independence Day is Monday

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence
every July 4, not with a parade of guns,
tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in
a show of strength and muscle, but with family
picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad
gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You
may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
—Erma Bombeck

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