"True Fourth" Topic

"Most places these days treat the Fourth of July as a strangely anachronistic holiday—a celebration of liberty (didn't we get rid of that?) when what we really need is more regulation, more laws to protect us from our own dangerous predilections. The Fourth of July in Lander, Wyoming, is an exhilarating exception.

I could write about the rodeo, where children can walk around freely and nobody worries. (Some of them are even in the rodeo, riding bulls.) Dr. and Mrs. Scott Olsson's daughter Josefina won the foot race for her age group by about twenty yards, by the way. Or I would write about the parade—a celebration of local veterans, class reunions, tribal identities, businesses, candidates, and so on—emceed by our own Gary Michaud and ending in a huge, more or less Dionysian huddle of fire engines turning all their hoses into the air at once. Younger citizens, including WCC students and their PEAK charges (not to mention a few alumni), frolic in the spray. But it's the fireworks, which start at dusk and go on and on, that truly define the Fourth and give the most compelling image of American liberty, whose vital quality we've almost lost in the nanny state…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Sometimes the government needs to be reminded it serves the people, not the other way around.

Glup!….

Amicalement
Armand

The writer obviously does not get out much.Some of the private fireworks parties in Florida rival the civic displays.

Rick

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand