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Happy Fourth of July
Last year on this day, we'd emerged from the shutdown little more than a month earlier, tens of millions of people around the world were sick, and millions were dying.
After a statement about the Revolutionary War, last year in this day's QoD, we wrote, "Today, we're involved in a different kind of conflict against an enemy that's invisible. And though the ongoing battle is, by all measures, lengthy, costly, and bitter, if we keep the faith, do what's right, and remember that we're fighting for our independence from an oppressor, like our forefathers and foremothers, we will triumph. Failure is not an option."
On this day this year, the vast majority of us can celebrate our liberation from that invisible oppressor. Though the COVID crisis is by no means over, it can be said that we fought the battle, did what was right, kept the faith, and for the most part prevailed.
Today, we have a direct and visceral experience of the meaning of freedom. And that's always something to celebrate.
Happy Independence Day.