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The last time America had a big celebration, I was three years old. Even so, I still have a few poignant memories of those summer evenings in small-town Michigan: riding the cannons in front of the courthouse, watching the protests, and watching my father, a veteran and Centerville city councilman, give a short speech about democracy.
Only then did I realize the significance of this date: July 4, 1976, America’s bicentennial.
America was imperfect and inconsistent in its ways of “freedom,” but the country has done some big, hard things in recent years. We led the charge to end the problem of the Nazi Party and the Nazis during the Second World War. We had begun to fight the inner demons through the non-violent activities of the civil rights movement. And, barely for my life, we had landed on the Moon.
