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Xietor said:
To me personally the 4th is much more than our freedom from the British, who I now view as our closest friend.
The 4th stands to as a monument to the Rule of Law, where the individual has the right to life, liberty, and property, that cannot be deprived without due process of law. And that right is one the United States has tried to safeguard for all humans. We opposed Nazi oppression and South Africa's former regime, to name a couple of worthy causes.
Obviously the United States has not been perfect in its pursuit of this goal(thanks George W Bush), but we have over the course of our history done much to further human rights worldwide. At least i like to think so. And it is in this spirit that we celebrate the 4th of July.
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Ditto on both points. I was pretty hostile to Britain as a kid because of the whole War for Independence thing, but as I grew up I realized that was silly. Britons are our cousins.
Yay for America and all our friends!
-Max