I won't go into a post about what this 4th of July means to me ... it'd be a blathering incoherent mess of a post. Instead I'll just ask you to listen to one of my favorite songs :
Gives me goosebumps every time I hear it ...
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. -Gerard K. O'Neill
