The Fourth of July is a day of patriotic songs and warm sentiment celebrating the freedoms that we enjoy.
Freedom is a strange thing.
When you don't have it, you desperately want it. When you do have it, you take it for granted. So, once a year it is good to think about how we got to where we are today. It is good to consider how different things would be if the Revolutionary War had never been fought. As good as it is to celebrate these blessings, this is really not the place to do it.