Happy 249!
Kevin McCullough
Two hundred and forty-nine.
That’s the number of candles on Lady Liberty’s cake this year.
Two hundred and forty-nine July Fourths since a bunch of ragtag farmers, merchants, and clergymen — armed with muskets and courage and divine providence — told the most powerful empire in the world, “No more.”
And here we are.
Still standing.
Still fighting.
Still free — even if battered and bruised from the battle to stay that way.
Because the reality is this: America was never a perfect nation. But she has always been a principled one. And that matters more than ever in a world teetering between tyrannies dressed as democracies and democracies afraid to act like themselves.
We didn’t become the shining city on a hill because of geography. It wasn’t luck that put freedom’s torch in our hand. It was the grace of God and the guts of generations who refused to let darkness win.
This week, as families gather around barbecue grills and community fireworks, let’s do more than celebrate. Let’s remember.
Remember what this country is.
And why she matters.
Especially now.
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