A strange 4th of July weekend

That celebratory weekend, America’s birthday was broken into multiple pieces this year, with a parade on Friday, a fly-over by the Air Force’s F-35 on Saturday, a total absence of fireworks on Sunday (because of the drought and of the high risk of fire), plus in Mormon’s theocratic land, no celebration of any sort, and finally an “observation” of the National Holiday by banks and post-office on Monday. 

Confusing isn’t it? 

So it never really felt like a patriotic celebration at all, not that we are staunch patriots as we are more globalists than anything else, but this broken-up approach didn’t help in fostering a patriotic bond. 

Trump’s demagoguery had thrown that concept under the bus for four years and already badly damaged it. 

Next year, our National Holiday will fall on a Monday and we might see a more united approach to that summer celebration...