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Sunday June 30th 2024, 10:09 pm
Filed under: History

One of the things I like about the Fourth of July is that it’s celebrated on the actual Fourth of July.

Not when it would make a long weekend, much though that would be nice, but with a firm declaration that it’s not about having time off nor about the distractions of the day, it’s about our whole country celebrating together the actual privilege it is of having this democracy that belongs to all of us, every single person from every background and all of us in it together with every person’s vote of the same importance and impact as every other person’s vote.


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My boss was recently communicating with a manager whose group was going to be sending us some things the first week in July that were rush projects, and he totally blew past the idea that none of the US editors (of which he is one) are going to be working on the 4th. Which I found so funny because it’s a fixed holiday, as you say! It’s not like, when is Memorial Day this year, or when is Easter. It’s the 4th!

Comment by ccr in MA 07.01.24 @ 5:05 am



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