So today is the Fourth of July in the US. As far as i'm concerned Independence Day is a movie about a failed alien invasion (i had such high hopes for our alien overlords too). Back when i was younger, this used to be a day where my father or brother would set off fireworks (sometimes with interesting resluts - like burned pants). i fail to see the point in celebrating this any more (basically 235 years after the fact). i guess the US is big on empty tradition and useless holidays.
For other people, this apparently marks a date that the government decided to use to commemorate the independence of the US from the UK. i've always thought that would have happened eventually even without the revolutionary war (maybe 10-20 years).
i've always wondered why the picked the 4th of July. After all, history is not always exact with the days. Basically i have assumed that they might have declared independence on that day. Why celebrate the day you allegedly declared independence, why not when you actually achieve it? What i don't get was that in that era information travelled very slowly. In other words, they could have declared independence without anyone else really knowing about it for days to months.
Why celebrate something that happened over 200 years ago anyway? The relevance seems to be a little lacking.
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