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Dear Editor:
July 4th is a few days away. How will Americans celebrate this Fourth of July? Does this Fourth of July feel any different? Do you feel less anxiety, relaxed and free to participate any way you wish? Do you feel patriotic as you have in the past years?
How do we feel as Americans today with the events that occurred last year in cities around our country? Have we forgotten the invasion of the “peaceful protesters” who visited our cities with burning, looting and destroying businesses and tearing down American historical statues? Have we forgotten the innocent drivers who accidentally ended up in the protesters’ area on the streets and were arrested for being afraid and trying to get away from the destructive protesters who were attacking them?
When I was in elementary school, I experienced the addition of “Under God” being added to our Pledge of Allegiance. I was also told, along with my classmates, that we were the luckiest children in the world because we lived in America. In my high school government class, we were told that the United States would always support and retrieve any American who was in peril in another country and that we would come and bring them home.
My parents experienced the bombing of Pearl Harbor and they NEVER forgot it and the war that followed. And I will say today that those of us who experienced last year’s destructiveness should never forget and accept it.
July 4th – how are you celebrating it?
Mari Briggs
Sheridan