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Do they have the 4th of July in other countries?
Today is the 3rd day of the 27th week, the 4th day of the 7th month, the 185th day of 2017 [with only 173 shopping days left before Christmas], and my country is officially 241 years old
It is Independence Day for the United States of America and its dependencies:
50 states – 48 contiguous plus Alaska and Hawaii,
one US federal district [AKA Washington DC, the capital],
four unincorporated organized inhabited territories [Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands],
two unincorporated unorganized inhabited territories [American Samoa and Wake Island],
seven unincorporated unorganized uninhabited territories [Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands and Navassa Island]
one incorporated unorganized uninhabited territory [Palmyra Atoll]
It is a federal holiday that will be celebrated with parades, fireworks, cookouts and family gatherings. Some will take a moment and read the document that started it all. Some will watch a documentary or a movie about those times and the impact the vision those old rich white men from 13 colonies had
“We the people” are pretty divided these days of rampant income inequity, as Calvinism/Libertarianism clashes with Liberalism/Socialism over who should be defined as an American, what the extent of the social safety net should be, and where we fit in with the rest of the world – and the division is acrimonious and I worry that we may not be able to reconcile our differences but instead one side will impose its will forcibly on the other. All realize that it is a time of transition; all fear “our” way of life is in dire peril. Whoever you believe in as “divine Providence”, we can only continue to firmly rely on the protection for our country as “our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor” continue to be pledged to each other.
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