OK, please explain this to me if you can. Today is the Fourth of July, the single, most important day in the history of the United States (if you believe that sort of thing). It is the celebration of the founding of the country and the overthrow (to some people's minds) of the tyranny that was the British Empire. Why is it then that most of the retail establishments are open and doing business like a sort of normal day? Better yet, explain why the stores are closed on Christmas and Easter, in most cases by law, and yet are open on the Fourth. Separation of church and state? Only in the imagination of those who perceived the country was founded to provide a more perfect union and something about domestic tranquility.
Happy Fourth of July anyway, even if you have to work. Of course, if was a more important holiday...
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