The State has been minimizing Independence Day for several decades now. It resembles very little the holiday I remember as a child.
Conveys an unhealthy message from their perspective.
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Your post reminds me of how we have seen Christmas devalued and marginalized, to the point of which we’re not supposed to utter the word “Christmas”.
I attended a business meeting on Monday, at which the group leader said there was a holiday this week. And she asked if anyone had any major plans for “Wednesday”. And then she repeated that we should enjoy the holiday.
This person could not bring herself to utter the words “Fourth of July”, or “Independence Day”.
She happens to be young, a “30 something” woman, if that makes any difference.
But that event makes me think that some people are conditioned to think of all holidays as some sort of generic day off, and we’re not supposed to even say the name of particular holidays anymore. And that’s very sad in my opinion.