As of today, Independence Day, we as a nation have three years to get ourselves together.
This decline in national pride isn’t merely a somewhat worrisome trend. At least for those of us who remember the massive bicentennial celebration in 1976, the current state of affairs is a tragedy.
” — and in June were commemorations of the remarkable colonial stand at Bunker Hill. In January, it seemed everyone in the country re-read Thomas Paine’sAnd so on, right until the glorious, joyous, nationwide eruption of awe-filled pride on the day of the bicentennial itself.was one of the seminal events of my life.
Clearly, I wasn’t alone in these sentiments. Some years later, my college classmate and now-fellow conservative columnist Deroy Murdock told me he had made the exact same vow in 1976, for the self-same reasons. And they were indeed “reasons,” not just jingoistic passions.
In the 47 years since then, we’ve come so much farther still. We defeated an evil, expansionist empire without firing a shot; we transcended unspeakable jihadist terrorism; we spread freedom and charity throughout the globe; and, yes, we significantly turned racism and its attendant ills into vestigial rather than still-regnant pathologies.
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