This evening they set off fireworks over the Hudson river – something that is done here every year on this day to celebrate our nation’s independence. Watching the fireworks this evening over the river, I had a flashback to several years ago, when our nation was first in the thick of newly declared war in Iraq. I remembered that there was a period of time when seeing the fireworks made me uneasy. It’s one thing to show a symbolic display of firepower when you are sure what it all signifies. It’s quite another thing to see America represented through marshal symbolism when your nation is in the midst of a war that seems misbegotten.<\/p>\n
I noticed this evening that this feeling of uneasiness had gone. I no longer think of our ship of state as being on a path to perpetual war, but rather as sincerely trying to work toward peaceful resolution of various conflicts around the world.<\/p>\n
And now, suddently, fireworks have become beautiful again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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