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No holiday in American history is more meaningful and important to me than Independence Day. I spent some of my hard-earned boyhood money for a mail-order box of firecrackers. Bull-dogs, cherry ...

One Founding Father thought we were celebrating on the wrong day, but that hasn’t stopped Americans from pulling out all the stops on July 4. The celebration of American Independence Day has ...