4th of July | IN 60 SECONDS

What do Americans celebrate on Independence Day? AEI's Gary Schmitt explains that fireworks and barbecues commemorate much more than secession from Great Britain. 

ARTICLE – Liberty’s precedents https://goo.gl/NH9G92

ARTICLE – America the exceptional https://goo.gl/JizVXc

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